Randomthots wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
They're used to peripherals that don't work as well or at all.
My peripherals are working fine, thank you very much ;-)
It's not too bad on my desktop machine, but my older Toshiba laptop is
another story. I've tried both Mepis and Fedora on it, and neither
distro could find the sound card at all, the video is strictly generic,
and for some reason, Fedora thinks the floppy drive is a 32 gig hard
drive that's out of commission. Thank goodness I don't need to use the
modems on either machine.
May I recommend the Toshiba Linux mailing list?
Btw, I had RH 9 running on it, and it was working fine (before the power
surge...). Admittedly, I wasn't doing sound... but you can always use
something like xvidtune to pick a better driver.
Also, that's why I'm switching distros, after being on RH since 5.2.
AFAIK, Fedora's too bleeding edge.
The interesting thing here is that OOo is the only full-featured office
suite that I'm aware of that fits the definition of "one monolithic
program". MSO is actually a collection of several individual apps and
the same is true of Wordperfect Office and the old Lotus Smartsuite I
used to use.
<snip>
Not sure I like One Monolith (except the one we were supposed to be
finding on the Moon four years ago...).
mark
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Commander Grimes "Jingo", Terry Pratchett
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