jtd wrote:
On Thursday 14 December 2006 22:55, Rony wrote:
To get an idea of where the industry should be going
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/the_free_computer_can_we_do_it
Do read the comments and follow the links in there.
Particularly for the project challenged. Can u imagine the strength of
a link to opencores.org with your project / contributions to some
project in your resumes?.
I feel that hardware is not much of an issue in linux anymore, atleast
for new kernels and distros. What I find strange is the way different
distros of the same brand work on the same machine. I have used Fedora
3, 4 and 5 on my system but on installing Fedora 6, after the first
installation reboot, the X crashed and put me into command line. It has
the option to re-detect and create a new xorg.conf file but it could not
recognize my PC hardware. What I get upset about is that instead of
becoming better, it gets worse on some fronts. I must add that Fedora 6
is loaded with some nice packages like Festival and Orca but whats the
use? It installed on the laptop but not before crashing during
installation once. The media check is giving no errors. These are just
some samples of how frustrating it gets.
Kubuntu 6.06 is most suited for the Acer 2428 laptop but Ubuntu 6.10
live gives a gnome crash error on run but still loads the desktop very
slowly. However on clicking 'Install' it just shows non-stop HDD
activity and does nothing. The lappy has to be forced shut-down. The
same CD works and installs very fast on my PC which is older than the
laptop and I am currently using this system. In both cases the distros
come from the same company. Again, in Kubuntu 5.10, I was able to play
VCDs after installing win32 codecs.
I can understand new hardware not getting detected but why so much
difference in the same distro brand on already known hardware?
Regards,
Rony.
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