Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
Simono
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On Saturday 29 May 2010 13:09:17 Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
Simono
If you need any assistances with Simply
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:23 +0100, Tim wrote:
On Saturday 29 May 2010 13:09:17 Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:59 +0100, Dan Dart wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful.
Why? I've never tried it so please enlighten me on why it sucks so much.
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for Samba.
Video editor programmes 'unstart'.
Freezes at kernel level on boot up-login.
Apart from that, it's brilliant!
Ubuntu has:
Networking
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:24 +0100, Dan Dart wrote:
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for Samba.
Video editor programmes 'unstart'.
Freezes at kernel level on boot up-login.
Apart
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:43 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:24 +0100, Dan Dart wrote:
Networking hobbled.
Kernel crashes.
Feeble standard repositories.
Sound disappears.
Sound controls disappear too.
Can't be configured for Samba.
Video editor
SimplyMEPIS?
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Look, boys, I've already got a job.
What do I need this grief for?
Actually I'm having some success with the Mepis boys' product. Still not
as easy as Ubuntu, but I am still at the stage of quite liking it.
Simono
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Next meeting: C4L and
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 15:59 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
SimplyMEPIS?
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Look, boys, I've already got a job.
What do I need this grief for?
Actually I'm having some success with the Mepis boys' product. Still not
as easy as Ubuntu, but I am still at
Thanks Tim.
I am now in possession of a fully operational Death Star, sorry, Mepis
Installation.
Can't get it to see my Ubuntus yet, but they can see it very easily and
when I make a change it implements straight away.
I couldn't understand why the system speaker was being used.
Then I plugged the
Glad you are enjoying Mepis.
Tim
On Saturday 29 May 2010 16:37:14 Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Thanks Tim.
I am now in possession of a fully operational Death Star, sorry, Mepis
Installation.
Can't get it to see my Ubuntus yet, but they can see it very easily and
when I make a change it
On 29/05/10 13:09, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Fedora is simply dreadful. I'm aborting it. If it was a baby, it would
be Eraserhead.
Next candidate:
Simply Mepis 8.5. It's a KDE, I would rather have Gnome, but I will give
it a try.
Simono
Sounds like a workman blaming his tools ;-) I'm been
On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:25:02 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said:
As a workman, if somebody gave me a banana to knock in nails, I would
blame the person who gave me the banana.
But if thousands and thousands - maybe millions - of people were
successfully using bananas to knock in nails,
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 21:30 +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2010 21:25:02 +0100, voluntar...@btopenworld.com said:
As a workman, if somebody gave me a banana to knock in nails, I would
blame the person who gave me the banana.
But if thousands and thousands - maybe millions -
At the end of the day we have all had those distro that looked good on paper
but
once we have committed it to disk it a different ball game and that can be down
to A) lack of user knowledge, B) bad hardware combination (also linked to A)
and C) the fact that some of us just want to get on
On 29/05/10 21:46, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I didn't make it swallow 20% of a 250 GB drive just for the root
partition; I didn't make the sound fail totally; I didn't make it file a
kernel crash report on every, single boot up.
So long as the Linubs think it acceptable to produce unreliable,
To be sure, for a user who wants to do basic things, Fedora is an easy
install, wifi works right away, and most of it just goes.
For anybody doing anything more advanced the misery just piles on.
I tend to judge these things by the amount and quality of support on the
web; Ubuntu and MEPIS have
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