On 4/21/05, JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bob Therina wrote: > | I tried the Ubuntu live CD and half of it didn't work for me either. I > | didn't get what all the big fuss was about. > > Let me take a stab at this one. When Ubuntu came out last year it > seemed to be all over the press. So after a while I started checking > into it. > > I think the big deal has more to do with Debian's problems than with any > Debian based distro's merits.
You may want to give NetBSD a try. Believe it or not NetBSD is a dream to run. pkgsrc is very easy to use and binaries are leased on a quarterly basis To install Gnome for instance do: pkg_add ftp://ftp2.us.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q1/NetBSD-2.0/i386/All/gnome-2.8.3.tgz and pkgsrc will walk the dependency tree. The latest ISO is here: ftp://ftp2.us.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/2.0.2/ The live eval CD is here: ftp://ftp2.us.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/2.0/i386live.iso NetBSD 2.0.2 also has binary packages for OpenOffice 1.1.4 and Kde 3.3.2 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected] http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug
