Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 05:38 PM 2/17/2008 ]
Fedora Core 8 has the edge over Ubuntu 7.10, IMO - sound worked more or less out of the box
I may have spoken too soon: my built-in webcam is not recognized - though an investigation will have to wait until next weekend.
, though a potentially serious problem (wireless not working) was eventually sorted out by plugging the machine via Ethernet into my wireless router, and then upgrading Network Manager, which did the trick.
I'm also kind of annoyed that wireless profiles don't seem to get saved in Network Manager. How hard can that be?
Udhay (who's happy that he saved himself some amount of grief by doing each install using the scorched-earth method of formatting the drive completely. Yay for external backup.)
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