On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:52:51PM -0800, Roy Charles wrote:
> I have Wine-Doors installed on my MEPIS installation. What Wine-Doors gives
> to Wine is a lot of Windows libraries which improves the odds for the
> successful installation of other programs. Crossover Office and Cedega (for
> games) are commercial programs that also do the job. With Wine you need to
> track down these things on your won.
>
> I think that you will be happy with your choice of MEPIS. I have used it
> since it first came out. It is the Debian equivalent of PCLOS, a small distro
> with great hardware detection, tools and good forums. It would be much
> farther ahead had it not switched to Ubuntu core and then back to Debian.
> This took us all for a roller coaster ride. Warren Woodford of MEPIS and
> Texstar/Bill Reynolds of PCLOS know each other.
>
> Best of luck!
Roy your posts are too good to be top posted. :) (Also a bit of
trimming would be good.)
Take this as a compliment though, your posts are always informative, and
so I always read them even though I have to take the effort to scroll
down and see what you're referring to in your posts.
Anyway...
I second Roy's opinion about Mepis. I think it would have been Ubuntu
had Ubuntu not come along. That is, Mepis, in my opinion, really raised
the bar as far as a distro that Just Works(TM). They were doing well,
but then the Ubuntu avalanche hit. That's not a putdown of Ubuntu, I
think they're making great strides in getting manufacturers, etc. to
think more about open source.
To digress---I sometimes have this little fantasy of some computer
manufacturer on the phone with say, a wireless card manufacturer.
"No, I'm sorry, we're not buying them this time. Well, because you
don't make your hardware accessible to Linux users."
"Yes, I understand you want to keep your code--I see how it's really
hurt Intel making cards that work out of the box with Linux."
"Yes, I'm sorry...but it's business. I have 1,000 letters here from
Linux and BSD users--they all basically say, 'We would have bought your
laptop, but those wireless cards don't work with Linux. So, we bought
from your rival'. That's $500,0000 dollars I lost, so the $5,000 I save
buying your cards...."
Sigh, it would be nice. I actually did write Acer, saying I'd bought
their laptop, and was quite disappointed, especially since the same
model was sold in Asia, but with a different wireless card, (an Intel) I
had thought Linux would work out of the box. I did state, but quite
politely, that I am a systems network admin and that my users often ask
me for advice when considering a purchase, and that I did think that
next time I was going to buy a machine that was friendlier towards open
source.
Just think people--if EVERY Linux user who researched laptops, then
decided to get, say Dell, rather than Acer, wrote a letter to Acer
afterwards saying, "I wanted to buy your machine, but it would be too
much hassle to get wireless and whatever working..."
Ah well, I can dream.
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