[Bradford] Looking for a new distro to try

[Wayne Hanley]

Hi Richard,

I have similar requirements to what you have and can say that Ubuntu works
well for me, Hibernate is working fine on 8.04 for me on my XPS 1330.

As for your query re encryption, I use truecrypt to for securing my home
directory in case I loose my machine while out and about.

As for the rest of your requirements I have the entire family and the office
running on Ubuntu on desktops and lappies and thus far no one as complained
:)

Good Luck
Wayne

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Richard Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiya
>
> I'm looking for a new distro to try
> at the moment I'm using gentoo and while I love Gentoo I have a few bug
> bears that really annoy me
> so looking for a new distribution to give a go
>
> so far I've played with
>
> Arch linux  failed to install shame really as i liked this one from a
> previous install and can have encrypted system
> Fedora 9   the GUI package manager looks like its not been finished and
> that annoyed me, but i did like that it can be encrypted
> ubuntu       was ok  but could not hibernate & no encrypted setup
> Open suse . dvd from cover disk on a magazine failed to read , downloading
> DVD ISO as we speak but 5hours to go :0(
>
> Things i need
> Blue tooth  ,support in nautilus (gnome) or KDE equivalent
> java  or more important josm (open street mapping software)
> Virtual box / vmware
> Ruby on Rails (version 2 preferred )
> Firefox to support Java & Flash
> Wine version 1
>
> Evil things i need
>
> Nvidia gfx cards ,yes evil drivers i know but i can't standl with the lack
> of responsiveness the open source version provides , plus i play tux cart
> and other linux glx games
> mp3 support , once again yes evil . but i don't fancy re ripping my cd
> collection to make them ogg to then not be able to play them on my mp3
> player
> Adobe flash.. nuff said
> DVD video support
>
>
>
> many thanks
> Richard T
>
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