[Sussex] XP pain

[Gavin Stevens]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:01:24 +0100
Jon Fautley <jfautley at redhat.com> wrote:
> P.S I've been browsing the list and not seen one mention of USE
> DEBIAN.  What's going on? Has everyone switched to Ubuntu since I left
> and no-one  cares for [use] Debian any more? :(

I can't imagine using anything other than Debian (OK, apart from DSL on
my 10 year old laptop - DSL is Debian based). Ubuntu is popular, but it
always amuses me when people say "Ooh, isn't Ubuntu friendly!" - well,
yes, but all the friendly bits come from Debian.
> 
> P.P.S Yes, I am sending this email in an attempt to kick off a
> distro-war ;) -- 

This morning at work, the production manager asked me very nicely if I
could help integration with a Linux problem (I work in the admin
department normally, but I am the only person at work now with any
day-to-day Linux knowledge).

More specifically, this "Linux" problem was a Fedora Core 4 (customer
preference) problem. Fedora had set the sound chip to be in a mode that
resulted in sound being transmitted through both line out & line in.
None of the options were set in the volume control to let me see what
was going on - I had to do this manually by ticking the boxes.

In the end, I solved this Fedora (Red Hat based) problem, by running a
Knoppix (Debian based) DVD in an identical machine for the same customer
& after Knoppix effortlessly detected & correctly set up the sound, one
of the integrators copied the settings onto Fedora & everything
worked......

Gavin. [use-debian]