On 4 July 2010 at 19:33, Brian Lunergan wrote: | Evening folks: | | Not sure where this fits into the picture so bear with me for a few | moments while I think out loud to lay out the particulars of my problem. | | -would love to be employed using R for a living but so far I have just | worked with it on my home machine to develop a basic level of skill with | it. | -I run Ubuntu linux 8.04 LTS on a machine with a 2.5GHz Celeron | processor and 1.2GB of memory. The Heron runs sprightly enough to suit | on that combination. | -noted on Cran that with the intro of the newest LTS edition, Lucid | Lynx, support for the Heron is continued on suffrage only. | -So, I tried to upgrade. Tried both Kubuntu and Ubuntu. Kubuntu dialled | out and connected to my ISP but failed to get anywhere after | authentication, Ubuntu failed to recognize my 3.5" A drive, and they | were both unbelievably sluggish on my system so out they both go and I'm | in the process of getting things set back up the way I had them with | 8.04. | | I realize this more OS than R, but I thought someone in the group might | have some ideas or suggestions they'd care to share, off-list of course. | Is there a way around this situation that doesn't involve huge outlays | in new hardware? Is there another flavour of Linux that would work with | my system and allow me to maintain a toe hold in the R camp so that I've | got it as a marketable skill somewhere down the road? Any thoughts would | be appreciated.
While this is really somewhat off-topic here, I think you would profit from some local help and hand-holding for the Unix / Ubuntu aspect of your upgrade. Fellow Ottawa R (and on Ubuntu) users John Nash and Paul Gilbert may be able to direct you to some friendly people. -- Regards, Dirk _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
