It's called distro fatigue. There comes a point in time when people start to look beyond bragging rights about successful install and driver insertion, and want to get some work done.
Ya, I guess people work with computers. I use it mostly for information gathering, computing my taxes and an occasional game. But all of that pales off when a new fedora or in recent times Ubuntu is launched. I have to have it and install it. The kind of kick that gives me is second only to installing a new piece of hardware....which is very rarely. You've nailed it about Ubuntu - the CD will obviously not carry all drivers
etc. You can also try Knoppix 1.1 or Mandriva 2007 according to your deb / rpm inclination - both work rather well with minimum fuss about drivers, as they have less of a politico-philosophical constraint. I was surprised with the Knoppix Live DVD - it booted fairly quickly, detected the default internet connection, recognized hardware, and let me create a pretty little card for my daughter in Tuxpaint on my Lenovo R60, all in Live mode. It may have some stability issues though, as it includes more of the cutting edge stuff and is not as thoroughly tested as Fedora / Ubuntu. I also needed to reboot the computer once and pass the necessary resolution parameter at boot time for the LCD. Another irritating aspect was the way sub-levels of the start menu take up the whole screen, and fonts need to be tweaked in all distros except Ubuntu to keep eyes from watering. By the way, is it just me, or does this list bounce slightly longish mails only selectively? --
In recent times at least these guys have not bounced any of my mails....but it happens in every plug members life in plug ....my opinion. regards, Ranjit. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
