On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:23:41PM +0100, Iain Conochie wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Allan Bruce wrote: > > > Ok, a good debate for everyone. > > /monkey puts on his hard hat ;) > > > Since I now have ADSL and the net is my oyster so to speak. I have lots of > > bandwidth needing wasted so I am thinking about downloading an alternate > > distro. > > If wasting bandwidth is your game I would suggesting having a bash on > debian. There is nothing quite like installing an OS over the internet.
Yes, very nice update system and if you want some sort of graphic config that is in apt to. > > What does everyone think is the best pros and cons. What I personally would > > like is something that will allow me to play 3d games on my geforce2mx and > > the other usual stuff - officy things, cdburning etc. > > Umm - I dunno about the games though, however all the other ususal stuff > is there - KOffice and the GNOME stuff as well Yea, that is all there as well, hell, even the nvidia drivers are in apt (I use debain and play quake 1/2/3 arena all the time) > > btw - has anyone checked out openoffice? It seems pretty good. Just > > downloaded it and about to install, get it at www.openoffice.org > > Yup - it kills my Win2K box dead and hangs the laptop on the install :( > > Guess i'll be using abiword for a while yet Again, it is in debian, you have to add a line to your apt sources to get it, but it is there and the package devel is VERY active. Take care - RL -- MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |"All that is etched in stone Yahoo:admroblaz AIM:admroblaz |is truly only scribbled in ICQ:66324927 |sand" - RL Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Join Eff http://www.eff.org e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]|Take care all - Rob Laz
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