[Sderby] Newcomer to Linux

[Peter Baker]

Ubuntu 6.10 seems to be the best offering for straight out of the box
installs and the easiest to use once installed, you won't really gain
anything from purchasing the distros other than telephone support.  There
are free versions of RedHat, called Fedora, which are also quite good and
favoured by a few LUG members. Quite a few of us favour Debian based distros
such as Ubuntu and some people even like SUSE! (No idea why though!).  Why
not pop along to a Friday meeting and discuss it further, always some
friendly faces.

On 06/02/07, Ian Spratt <ian.spratt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/6/07, Hedley Quinton <hedley.quinton at barroon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to those who have helped me get over my posting hurdle.
> > (Actually feel something of a prat).
> >
> > Being sick of Bill and all his works, with the launch of Vista, and
> > the inevitable pressures to 'upgrade' at a high cost from XP, I
> > decided now was the time to do what I have been promising myself for
> > several years - change to Linux.
> > A bewildering range of possibilities emerged. Of course I was seduced
> > by the apparent 'zero' cost of some of the offerings. Ubuntuu seemed
> > to me to be attractive, nice website, pictures of happy geeks
> > wallowing in Ubuntu. So I went for it. Downloaded several version of
> > Ubuntu, Kubuntu, did a disc image copy of each, popped them in turn
> > into my dvd/cd drive and attempted to run them to get the full
> > flavour of the Linux revolution. Result, zilch. Only one of them got
> > anywhere and that was Ubuntu 6.06 that froze after announcing that it
> > was loading device drivers. Lots of time spent trying all sorts of
> > ways to persuade them to go but of no avail.
> > More to this than meets the eye I thought! Why don't I just fork out
> > the cash and buy Suse 10.2 and be done with it? (or maybe Red Hat or
> > whatever). Commercial offerings, bound to work, or will they?
> > So I joined sderby LUG, they are bound to have the answer, I thought;
> > so come on you experts give me some clues.
> >
> > Hedley Quinton
> >
> >
> I'm suprised ubuntu doesnt work straight out of the box, there must be
> some hardware in you PC that is causing problems. it would really help if
> you send the specs of your PC to the list, to see if anyone has had problems
> previously.
>
> On a side note, we have quite a few newer people now, maybe its time for
> us more experienced people to run an install day?
>
> Ian
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sderby mailing list
> Sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sderby
> Web site: http://sderby.lug.org.uk/
> wiki: http://www.sderby.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
> Join us on IRC: irc.lug.org.uk #sderby
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/sderby/attachments/20070206/a4e6067a/attachment.html