[HLUG] Minty Freshness

Thu Sep 4 14:58:04 UTC 2008

I have a 7600 and it works fine with TvTime for me. Have you installed the
Nvidia drivers, or just using the default?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Christopher Evans <reactiv8 at hotmail.co.uk>wrote:

>
> Mint works fine with nVidia graphics cards 6200 series - especially if you
> want to use a wide-screen monitor ... Not so good with TV-viewing
> applications though - I've tried and failed with: MythTV, Mythbuntu, FreeVO
> & tvtime :(
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> >    1. Re: Fedora 9 PackageKit freezing and distro recommendations
> >       (Morven Lewis-Everley)
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> > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:23:13 +0100
> > From: "Morven Lewis-Everley"
> > Subject: Re: [HLUG] Fedora 9 PackageKit freezing and distro
> >       recommendations
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> > A few people on here use Linux Mint. It is based on Ubuntu, so I thought
> I
> > would give it a try, due to Ubuntu 8 causing me a lot of stability
> issues.
> >
> > It looks really slick, probably one of the nicest distros I have seen. It
> > comes with Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird Pidgin etc etc, and I have
> > found it so far has been more stable and also didnt mess up when I tried
> to
> > set up my Nvidia card :). Plus it also uses apt for package management.
> >
> > I am quite impressed with it to be honest, would definatly recomend it.
> >
> > Mo
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Paul Stenning wrote:
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> >> I've been playing with a few distros to see if there is anything that
> >> takes my fancy better than Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Fedora 9 looks good and seems to work well.  Plus it's not brown!
> >> However I am having a lot of problems with the PackageKit software
> >> installer thing.  It keeps stalling with a "waiting for other tasks to
> >> complete" message which never clears.  So if I have chosen several
> >> packages to install and get to this I have to quit it and lose the
> >> options I set.  From Googling this seems to be a fairly common problem
> >> with lots of moaning but no decent solutions.  I have the same problem
> >> with two installs (one on VMware and one on a real PC).  It looks like
> >> they haven't learnt from the problems with openSUSE 10.1 a while ago
> >> when their package manager was broken.
> >>
> >> So with Fedora out of the running and deleted, what other distros are
> >> recommended for ease of use and reliability?  Requirements are Gnome
> >> desktop (KDE feels clunky and overblown to me), the ability to upgrade
> >> from one release to the next without wiping the disk and starting again,
> >> recent packages by default (OpenOffice 2.4, Firefox 3.0 etc) without
> >> pointless renaming (I want Firefox not Iceweazle!), as much as possibe
> >> configurable from the GUI, active development, and plenty of packages in
> >> the repositories.  I guess I'm describing Ubuntu really, but I'm keen to
> >> look at some others too.  Suggestions welcomed please!
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