[SWLUG] Re: Newbie alert!

[Tony Pursell]

On 16 Aug 2005 at 20:38, Glenn Booth wrote:

> I'm spending more time at the Linux machine

So am I, but only because I discovered Ubuntu.  Apart from a spell with 
Slackware (strictly command-line, no X, so I could do things at home 
that I was doing on Unix machines at work) in the mid 90's, I tried 
straight Debian a while ago.  That was a struggle. Problems with X.  
Problems with getting the NIC working (how are you supposed to know 
that a Netgear card needs a natsemi driver). Never got sound working. 
So I never trusted it.  But Ubuntu worked virtually out of the box.  
Personally, I think we need this sort of product for newbies. Their first 
install should not be a struggle.  They can go on and do Samba, etc 
with confidence later when they have really got the Linux bug.

Tony Pursell