[Klug-general] Fwd: Using Linux (Fedora Core 1)

[Wayne Brown]

Wayne Brown wrote:

> George Prowse wrote:
>
>> Peter wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the encouragement George.
>>>
>>> I've got the modem working even if it's only at half speed. It's a 
>>> dial up.
>>>
>>> To be honest I'm thinking of giving up on Linux altogether. It's a 
>>> good idea but it's got too many bugs. As I said I upgraded to Core 
>>> 3. I can't create a second user. The Find Files seems to freeze and 
>>> I still have the original printer and Mozilla problems to get back to.
>>>
>>> It's all taking up too much time.
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> George Prowse wrote:
>>>
>>>> sheppey at sheppey.free-online.co.uk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I decided to upgrade to Core 3. to see if that would help the 
>>>>> printer installation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now my modem doesn't work and I simply do not have the time to 
>>>>> wade through the
>>>>> mass of possible drivers and kernal upgrades I might need to get 
>>>>> it going again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have a Linux friendly modem that will also work on 
>>>>> Windows 98 and has
>>>>> a full set of drivers?.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Kent mailing list
>>>>> Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>>>> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The trick is to get it working so you know what to do next time, 
>>>> you've done it once, you should be able to do it again or submit a 
>>>> bug report.
>>>>
>>>> What kind of modem is it?
>>>>
>>>> If you really wanted to get another anyway then what kind of 
>>>> internet connection do you have?
>>>>
>>>> George
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>> Well Fedora Core is Red Hats "testing ground" for what goes in their 
>> Enterprise package. My opinion (and i state that it is only that) is 
>> that you would be better off with Mandrake or SuSE.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
> Hi Paul,
> I know how it feels - it can be frustrating when things don't just 
> work. For me, given the choice, I'll take a bit of extra work and a 
> system that's rock solid with great software than use MS products - I 
> have thrown good money at their stuff in the past and been very 
> dissapointed (I've used every version through my work up to the 
> current XP) I'll never buy their products again.
>
> Some of the problems you experience are driver related - they are 
> getting fewer now, a symptom of one companies monopoly on the desktop 
> market (although Linux is winning slowly) and some can be because you 
> are using 'bleeding edge' software. As George says it's Red Hat's 
> testing ground (Fedora Core) so although it's stable, you might find a 
> few bugs in some of the software packages(not to be confused with 
> Linux the OS itself which is rock solid)
>
> It's worth sticking with Linux, there is a wealth of great software, 
> with no restrictive licences to contend with. So much in fact that 
> sometimes the easiest thing is to ask others for recommendations and 
> save yourself time trying them all out :-)
>
> I'm glad you've got your modem working again - for what it's worth - 
> external modems that connect via the serial port are the way to go 
> because no driver is required!  Much like if you go for broadband - 
> it's worth getting a modem that connects via a standard ethernet 
> connector and then you don't have any problems.
> I find nearly all other hardware well supported - I recently installed 
> ubuntu (I had gentoo for ages until my hard disk died, backed up of 
> course; disk was only 15mths old, shocking really) and was pleasantly 
> suprised that with no configuration, no shuffling through a pile of 
> driver disks and no annoying 'you have moved your mouse, you need to 
> re-boot' a zillion times, around 30-40 minutes I had a completely 
> working system with configured:
> monitor, graphics, keyboard, mouse, sound, internal usb card reader, 
> cd writing capability and even hot plugging usb devices working!
> The only downside was multimedia support of things like mp3 and dvd 
> playback, you have to go and get it, but hey, I reckon if I installed 
> windows, then all the drivers and then all the software, it would take 
> me a day so I'm 7 hours to the good :-)
>
> Mandrake is also very good for beginners too.
>
> HTH and good luck
>
It's Peter isn't it, sorry, it's late and I'm tired - that's my excuse.

-- 
Regards

Wayne
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