I was running Linux inside virtualbox. Naturally, my choice was gentoo, since I have been a gentoo fan and know my way around pretty much. Based on reviews etc., I decided to try ubuntu. the prime driver was source code compilation issue in gentoo. Every big package takes hours to compile! A big headache. So I thought, why not go to the world of apt-get, and try "Kubuntu" (KDE man here). Well I was able to install, and then completely get lost. I understand they have dumbed down everything, but I can't seem to get anything to work. dpkg-reconfigure xorg, gives me xconfiguration, but I can just set keyboard etc., there. There is no way to set up my display to 1280x800, like I had in gentoo! I can manually try mucking around with xorg.conf, but that breaks things and X itself does not start. I have come back shaken from ubuntu experience, I think I will go back to my oldest distro, mandriva, hopefully they will let me retain enough control!
Did anybody of you who came from "hardcore linux" environment feel lost in a modern distro? _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
