[members at lugog] Hi

[Jake Davies]

On 04/11/11 18:20, Clouds wrote:
> Hi All,
> 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.
> I shall return, as the idiot said.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* GARY SEVIOUR <mailto:gseviour at btinternet.com>
>     *To:* The Linux User Group of Glastonbury
>     <mailto:glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>     *Sent:* Friday, November 04, 2011 4:03 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [members at lugog] Hi
>
>     cool!
>     I forgot to mention in my long post yesterday that Ubuntu vs Arch.
>     Ubuntu is like buying a car (An Audi perhaps?), Arch is like
>     building one from a selection of parts.
>
>     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).
>
>     Which distro(s) do other lugogers use?
>
>     --- On *Fri, 4/11/11, Ian Dickinson /<i.j.dickinson at gmail.com>/*
>     wrote:
>
>
>         From: Ian Dickinson <i.j.dickinson at gmail.com>
>         Subject: Re: [members at lugog] Hi
>         To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury"
>         <glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>         Date: Friday, 4 November, 2011, 14:36
>
>         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.
>
>         Vote here:
>
>         http://doodle.com/eqm3d9h3tvfae8gw
>
>         Or suggest another venue or date if the mood so takes.
>
>         Ian
>
>
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Hi Clouds,
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.

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

-- 
D. Jake Davies
C1120627
BSc COMSC

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