[Lancaster] Freespire impressions

[John Scott]

That is interesting. I am running an IBM T22 notebook, and I got a 
decent X server first time around, also it correctly configured my dual 
boot. The only issue I had when installing, was a known problem with 
partitioning some disks, where the partitioner would not let me resize 
my disk. I used a suse install disk in rescue mode to do the 
partitioning, and everything else was cool. I am not using wifi yet, so 
will feed back on that when I try it.

My personal preference is Suse, but on this hardware, it just doesnt run 
well. When I get more memory, the first thing I am going to do is 
install Suse 10.1 (or 10.2 if its released by then) as my primary 
operating system.


Cheers

John

Ken Walton wrote:
> On 9/2/06, John Scott <john at raystorm.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Ken
>>
>> Before you install Ubuntu again, give Mepis a try. I was pleasantly
>> surprised at how user friendly and quick it is *Boot and run. Im running
>> a P3 850 with 128MB Ram and it runs like a dream. Device support is
>> great, the forum is active and the people very helpful and Im not moving
>> away from it in the foreseeable future.
>
> Well, this has been an interesting afternoon! Let's call it a learning
> experience...
>
> I've installed Mepis. You're right, it's fast. Faster than I've seen
> KDE running with any other distribution on a computer as old as mine.
> Sadly it was less "boot and run" than it might have been, unless you
> mean in terms of mugging my computer.
>
> First, I had to reconfigure xserver to get a decent display. Then I
> had to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file to get wifi working -- it
> worked, despite the little note in the file telling me I shouldn't do
> this in Mepis.
>
> But... It overwrote the boot file, and didn't give me a dual boot
> option. So I've had to learn all about grub. Three hours later, I'm
> slightly better educated, and can dual boot into Ubuntu or Mepis. I
> guess I'd call that a win on a rainy day when there's nothing better
> to do...
>