Hi,
I'll probably upset the Mandy purists but PCLinuxOS is a very good
development of Mandriva. It works well on my old laptop and has a
tremendous automatic downloader/installer that does away with all the
newbie problems.
S
Registered Linux Mangler #001
On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:15, stuart bell wrote:
Hi,
I'll probably upset the Mandy purists but PCLinuxOS is a very good
development of Mandriva. It works well on my old laptop and has a
tremendous automatic downloader/installer that does away with all the
newbie problems.
S
I have
Eric,
I've now got PCLinuxOS on my laptop and PC they are both old machines
but work very well with linux. I found that using 2006 and Mandriva
One that I always had such problems just getting the basics to work-
java, flash, mplayer etc. I often ended up reinstalling as I felt that
my
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:15, stuart bell wrote:
Hi,
I'll probably upset the Mandy purists but PCLinuxOS is a very good
development of Mandriva. It works well on my old laptop and has a
tremendous automatic downloader/installer that does away with all the
newbie problems.
S
HJB,
Kubuntu. I'll look for a download tomorrow (if my '8Mb' connection
will run faster than 512!)
Surely even I can't get in any more trouble with that any other distro.
Stuart
--
Registered Linux Mangler #001
Want to buy your Pack or
On Saturday 28 October 2006 12:05 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
And I've just kicked PCLinuxOS and Mandy off my laptop in favour of
kubuntu6.10 (aka edgy eft) .. Good to have choice.
I've tried kubuntu (I think it's 6.06) on my Acer Aspire 3000 laptop and it
run's fine with the CD but after
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:07:14 -0400
rjlapham got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
I've tried kubuntu (I think it's 6.06) on my Acer Aspire 3000 laptop and it
run's fine with the CD but after installing the video is messed up and I
haven't found a way to fix it.
ATI card? I tried to
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:13, stuart bell wrote:
HJB,
Kubuntu. I'll look for a download tomorrow (if my '8Mb' connection
will run faster than 512!)
Surely even I can't get in any more trouble with that any other distro.
Stuart
Mine doesn't do faster then 245 k/s, still no pain
On Saturday 28 October 2006 4:37 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:07:14 -0400
rjlapham got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
I've tried kubuntu (I think it's 6.06) on my Acer Aspire 3000 laptop and
it run's fine with the CD but after installing the video is messed up and
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:47:09 -0400
Miark got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
KDE, hands down.
Though, of course with no malice or prejudice on my part, I should mention that
XFCE4 might be a lighter choice for an older machine ;)
--
JoeHill / RLU #282046
+++
Hi,
I am currently running LM 2007 on my Inspiron 9100.
A friend wishes to try "linux" for the first time on his older laptopa P3
around 1000Mhz, I think.
Which version of Mandriva would the group recommend
(or other distro?) for this first timer. Of course, he's a windows users so a
On 10/26/06, Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am currently running LM 2007 on my Inspiron 9100.
A friend wishes to try linux for the first time on his older laptopa P3
around 1000Mhz, I think.
Which version of Mandriva would the group recommend
(or other distro?) for
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:36:49 -0700, Bill wrote:
Which version of Mandriva would the group recommend (or other
distro?) for this first timer.
Mandriva One, because he doesn't have to install it (but set up a
small Linux partition for his data).
Of course, he's a windows users so a familiar
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