So over the last few years I have tried various flavors of Linux
including SUSE, Ubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix and a couple of others. None ever
fulfilled the advertised promises of simple installation, peripheral
recognition and ease of use. But I seem to have stumbled on to a version
of Linux that comes pretty close. It's called Linux Mint.
My test bed for all these versions is and old Compaq laptop (circa 2001)
with a 900mhz AMD chip and 384 mb of memory. So far it has recognized
everything I have hooked up to it and quite honestly has never run
better. I'm impressed.
Most importantly it plays MP3s, MPEGs and Windows media things right out
of the box with no additional downloads or tinkering necessary. I'm able
to stream my favorite radio stations as well. It immediately recognized
the other computers on my home wifi network (XP, Vista and Mac) and I
was easily able to exchange files. I'm wondering if others have had a
similar positive experience.
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