i'm pretty happy with Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 ...then again i just do casual
browsing.
i recently bought into the broadband wireless fad and got me a gsm modem. i
got a bit worried since the manual didn't mention support/instructions for
Linux. i was pleasantly surprised to discover that Ubuntu knew about Smart,
Globe and Sun B) Needless to say setup was a cinch.
The modem manager that came with the package was Windows based; i promptly
looked for and found wammu, which i'm now using to check my balance.
i didn't have good experiences with Fedora 8/9; it kinda shook my faith in
it(then again, Fedora is supposed to be cutting edge, and not necessarily
stable) Now switched to CentOS
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Orlando Andico <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [plug] best linux desktop to use
> To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List"
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 9:43 PM
> Personally I've soured on the Linux
> desktop (after many years of using
> a Linux desktop... starting with Slackware 3.0) because
> support for
> Intel Wireless is so cranky / unreliable!
>
> I was using FC8 some months back and although I followed
> all the
> instructions for setting up wireless, 7 times out of 10 I
> could not
> connect to the AP. I would have to try and try and try
> before the
> wireless connection would "take." I was using the GNOME
> wireless
> manager though, some other offerings might be more robust.
>
> And I could never get Intel dual-display working (so you
> can drive a
> projector). Every time I would enable it from the GNOME
> display
> manager, the display would freeze. Needless to say,
> inability to drive
> a projector was a deal-breaker for me.
>
> It's really quite annoying because all my enterprise
> software needs
> run best on Linux. But dual-boot is so cumbersome and
> running Linux
> inside a VM is no joy at all (slow).
>
>
> --
> Orlando Andico
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