Well I tried UBUNTU first. 32 bit version. I liked it in many respects until I found that I get freezes. It appears that my ASUS M2V HDMI mother board and the Linksys wmp54G wireless adapter card have issues. Motherboard issue possibly was overcome by disabling my absent FDD in the bios and keeping ACPI offin UBUNTU installation. There were occassional freezes while using Firefox which required hard reboots. I tried NDISWrapper but did not help much. From the forums I find that this problem is present with all distributions and so cannot help. I could not install x-windows-system-lib required for a seismic data processing software porting from UNIX. I got info that this was installed on a Fedora successfully. Thats the reason I installed Fedora. But I found it trying to download too big an update without giving an option. Meanwhile I got the new Kernel---19 for UBUNTU and the freezes have become worse. Also I installed Flash player. It appears after playing a few clips it automatically reboots. Then I turned to OpenSuse 11.0 It appeared good. So tried to install after the initial setup just when I clicked next so that everything will be installed it rebooted. I checked up the media, my memory etc. Everything is OK. Once more I will try openSUSE. Saifi says he uses openSUSE. openSUSE does not give an option to where the GRUB loader is to be kept. However it offers to keep all distros and windows.
Thats the reason I will have 3 Linuxs on my system. If LINUX doesnot do anything to its wireless network then I have to either change my wireless card to a lesser known brand or connect internet direct on to my desktop LAN . For me it appears LINUX is still not as good as windows xp. mohan On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Mayank Rungta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which distribution is stable? mohan > > I don't see why u need both FC and Ubuntu. Either shud suffice. I have > been using Ubuntu 8.04.1 64 bit peacefully for months now! :) > > Only trouble I have is opera hogging CPU sometimes, FF has never crashed > - it freezes - greys out but recovers eventually. The only persistent > trouble I have is with hibernate. It never works with the external > screen. Apart from this on most application scrolling behaves weirdly. > > No problem so bad that I need to reconsider a distro. Infact I haven't > had the time or the _need_ to try FC9! :) > > -- > Have a splendid weekend, > Mynk > >
