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On 04/11/11 18:20, Clouds wrote:
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<div><font size="2">Have to admit, as a newbie - hangs head - that
I've temporarily gone back to the madmen of Richmond. I tried
to get a distro that suited me but either Ubuntu or CentOS or
whatever baulked at my hardware or I just couldn't get stuff
to install. Linux needs to be made more user-friendly for
those of us long in the tooth and none too keen on struggling
with repositories. Ubuntu was allegedly the answer, hmm.. i
didn't find it so and I'm building my sixth machine (don't
haved them all of course) so I know what the inside of the box
looks like :-) It's always the bloody software that's the
problem.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">I shall return, as the idiot said.</font></div>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 04,
2011 4:03 PM</div>
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[members@lugog] Hi</div>
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<td valign="top">cool!<br>
I forgot to mention in my long post yesterday that
Ubuntu vs Arch.<br>
Ubuntu is like buying a car (An Audi perhaps?), Arch is
like building one from a selection of parts.<br>
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BTW I have previously used vector linux for a very old
laptop with some success for someone who then sold it to
buy booze and fags (c'est la vie).<br>
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Which distro(s) do other lugogers use?<br>
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--- On <b>Fri, 4/11/11, Ian Dickinson <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:i.j.dickinson@gmail.com"><i.j.dickinson@gmail.com></a></i></b>
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Subject: Re: [members@lugog] Hi<br>
To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk"><glastonbury@mailman.lug.org.uk></a><br>
Date: Friday, 4 November, 2011, 14:36<br>
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<div id="yiv1484409875">So as not to lose this fragile
spark of activity, I've assumed Phil's suggestion of
the pub in Ashcott and created a doodle page so that
we can pick a date and have a meetup. Which could be
the first of, er, one. Or indeed many.<br>
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Vote here:<br>
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Or suggest another venue or date if the mood so
takes.<br>
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Ian<br>
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Hi Clouds,<br>
What sort of hardware are you running here exactly? Some sort of
specialist/new released printers/scanners/brand new graphics card?
For example Debian and/or Ubuntu 10.04 LTS wouldn't run on a Samsung
laptop I was given because it's "too new" and the
software/drivers/kernels in those versions of Linux are behind the
hardware. So, I grabbed Mint/based on Ubuntu 11.04, which had
support for the graphics chipset + wifi.<br>
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Other than your hardware being "too new" for Linux to keep up with
(or the hadware vendors keeping the devices completely locked down),
I can personally say I find the likes of Ubuntu, Mint et al to be
far easier to use, install, and play with<br>
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D. Jake Davies
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