Here aare my experiences at trying to get various linux distros working as a not very technical user. I an not much at working with linux but I have tried various linux distros in order to get my hardware to work. Small home LAN with attached and a network printer using email, web browsing, a small amount of word processing and spreadsheets, some digital photos.2HDD initially adding a HDD to dual boot. small requirements really, I wanted to be able to burn cds, use a USB flash memory stick, and have a back up usb drive. I started on redhat 7.2- no CD burning and I was never able to get this going, but never hadenough knowledge to work on this -then redhat 9 after a motherboard failure, still no cd burning and it had trouble with flash memory. -so I tried redhat WS3 hoping that these issues would be better sorted there. Comments on their support list made me realise that it would be awhile before they supported usb from the GUI -I was shown Mandrake 10.1 so changed to that which gave usb GUI support but no cd burning, I am attempting to buy support from them but their system wont credit the support I have bought when asking queries via the web page, maybe they will get this sorted out -I tried Debian but could not get X working -my partners laptop died so had to stop mucking about so we had one working computor -i upgraded win2000 and put on some programs that my partner uses which filled its 10G disc so it could not think to burn cds for Xandros -I saw reviews of Xandros 3 so bought that and while waiting for shipped discs also ordered Unbuntu -Unbuntu loaded on new secondhand laptop and works, burns cds, recognises flash memory cards, networks, prints but no driver for canonS520 so the colour is odd, black works and network printer works. -Xandros 3 was loaded onto the win2k disc as that was no longer useful (deleting programs did not give free disc space on win2k) recognises usb, recognises but fails to print to canonbjc85 that every other linux distro used works with (Xandros works on network printerHP1320n) and fails to burn cds. Xandros support working on this.
Xandros was able to recognise all other ditributions on my hard discs and give them a place on the boot selection screen. Mandrake and Debian installations both only allowed the options on the boot selection screen of themself and windows, not any other linux on the discs. Ken On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 20:03 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 09:03 +1100, O Plameras wrote: > > Simon Wong wrote: > > > How about organizing a publicly accessable WWW Internet > > site from where people can install ANY of the major distro remotely ? > > > > Debian, Ubunto, Fedora, RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Gentoo. The more, the > > merrier. > > I am sure that Slug will host a list of links page if you want to create > one. Where is no real point mirroring though. > > wiki might be better then you can rate the various distros and make > comments on why. > > -- > Ken Foskey > OpenOffice.org developer > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
