[wellylug] Getting linux installed

[Jonathan Harker]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 10:33, Harrold Potter wrote:
> Ok I have been running Xandros for awhile now but have had a few problems
> with it so I had tried out various other distributions such as suse 10.1,
> Fedora Core 5 and Kubuntu. I was able to install Suse 10.1 fine and get
> everything working though I was not able to install any software due to
> YAST being broken, Kubuntu I had issues with admin passwords not being
> accepted (5.10) I couldn’t install 6.06? as it would hang when starting the
> install. And Fedora Core 5 would not let me enable the wireless network
> card even though it detected it.

Sounds like you want KDE - funnily enough, Kubuntu isn't really all that 
flash - installing Ubuntu 6.06 is actually a much better bet, since that is 
where most the effort and polish went. Once installed, you can then apt-get 
install thunderbird and kubuntu-desktop for your KDE. 

Laptop wireless will always be a bit iffy for any distro, especially on newer 
laptops, and even-more-especially with certain (eg. Broadcom) chipsets. 
Easily fixed with a windows driver and ndiswrapper, however.

For what my $0.02 is worth, I've been using Linux for nearly ten years now 
since RH 6. After Mandrake started to drop the ball, I switched briefly to 
Suse, dabbled in Fedora Core, and finally made the leap from RPM based 
distros to Ubuntu 5.04 last year. Ubuntu is easily the best, cleanest, 
easiest distro I've ever used. Until you experience apt-get and synaptic, 
nothing else comes close (urpmi, yum, yast, smart, etc. are clunky imitations 
believe me!)  :-)

Cheers,
J

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Jonathan Harker
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