[KLUG Members] Distro Recommendations

Bill Katsma bkatsma at comcast.net
Fri Nov 24 09:46:52 EST 2006


When you get a chance check out this site.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy

And since you installed dapper

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper

Later
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 23:48 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 22:25 -0800, Nikolas Reist wrote:
> > You could try ubuntu.  Most thing work right out of the box and there
> > is in-depth support.  Let me know if you decide and I will get you
> > some ubuntu tweaks.
> >  
> > Good luck
> > 
> 
>         Last night installed Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on the T30 Thinkpad in
> question.
> Lots of directions and help on the Ubuntu site and forum. While still
> very labor intensive most everything worked out of the  box or after
> some simple modifications documented at Ubuntu. What I have left is
> checking the scanner for a MF Epson and the IR port. That means
> wired/wireless, both kinds of suspend, printer, hardware detection, etc
> just worked! Wow, I'm impressed. I've got two users and an admin account
> with all the multimedia bells and whistles, wireless tools, tweaks and
> additional
> programs set up. The one user; a young girl; even said I didn't know you
> could do that with windows! I just smiled and said it's better than
> windows. I'm especially impressed with two things, the amount of concise
> centrally located readily available support and the 'Alien' rpm
> converter.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
> http://petertheplumber.net
> 
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