except, how about switching to SuSE's Gnome (or another distro's Gnome)?
Your friend will then have less difference to cope with between platforms. The obvious one being Synaptic and YaST; but that's the key point from which to start one's learning curve, imho - the packaging decision.
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Feb 7, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Hugo Vincent wrote:
The drive is ATA, but I think the BIOS makes it look like SATA, which Linux will see as SCSI, right?
Not necessarily... some of the latest 2.6 based distros recognise them as SATA. Can't remember which one, though, and I've had to give that machine back! It's not Debian - I've just checked, so it'll be one of FC3, SuSE (the latest enterprise version ) or Mandrake (:
I'm getting a SATA-based machine tomorrow to play with under Ubuntu.
It *should* be hiding the disks behind a RAID card, but I'll try it natively as well, just to see what happens.
-jim
Am I missing something here? What I've seen of Ubuntu ( at a CLUG meeting ), it came across to me as a messy pile of ****,
My apologies for contributing to that through my novicehood, at last December's meeting. In this case, blame the messenger?
and a rather small, feature poor one at that. That, and the fact that they've gone out on a limb with the default security policy, I can't see what's attracting so much interest?
And I think you know by now that I'm not just stirring it with comments like this - I *really* do want to know what I've missed.
My slide from that demo session has more, relevant background, and is here:
http://www.infohelp.co.nz/dsubuntu.html
Steve
The main answer has been Ubuntu's recommendability for people just starting out, who need everything to work as simply and reliably as possible, based on the packaging subsystem.
What we need to know now is which distro(s) install easiest on that type of SATA box. That's what we'll be recommending to others in this situation - not Ubuntu. Hugo's client's needs are a specific case, to be solved with uniformity; challenging. Trial and error, moving on.
hth,
Rik
-- Mozilla 1.7.2 free open source email client & browser
