[Sderby] Newcomer to Linux

[Dave Coulson]

Hedley
I started with the Hoary Hedgehog version of Ubuntu (5.10, I think) but 
over a series of upgrades have now arrived at a working version of Edgy 
(the latest). It still doesn't recognise my scanner and there seems to 
be a Samba problem, but at least I can work on it. You really do need to 
do your homework on the Ubuntu Wiki site and read the upgrade notes and 
comments by users. Information on the use of apt-get (the Debian 
installer, I think), and other commands is necessary. Check your 
hardware against their database to see if it is supported. I don't 
thi9nk I would be seduced into installing Ubuntu and Kubuntu at the same 
time, but get one working and then think about the other. Incidentally 
my Edgy installation seemed to be incomplete, but sorted itself out on 
re-booting.

Hope that helps
David Coulson


Hedley Quinton 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
>
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