[Wolves] Hello
kev adams
kev at magicmoon.co.uk
Thu Aug 19 15:44:54 BST 2004
Hi Peter
I don't have any experience with Suse (apart from playing around with the
ocassional live CD) but have noticed a few people here seem happy with it.
Fedora Core 1 seemed great at first - I was impressed with the amount of
recent software included. I had to re-install my network card several times
though as it seemed to almost randomly forget the settings (?) There were
also issues with FC1 update being broken - I'd presumed the service was
heavily oversubscribed & just running very slowly until I found out it was a
known problem. Then one day the whole file system started to corrupt & after
a short time became unbootable. I had to repartition so it seemed like a
good time to play with debian again ;~) I've got a couple of debian installs
running at the moment but they're both running an agnula set up so are
running unstable. I've installed it three times now & each time it gets
easier - always takes a bit of playing around to get X set up though. The
apt tools are the best - I'm becoming a convert!
Seems to me that these days the hardest part in choosing a distro is the sheer
number of decent distros out there!
How have you found FC2? When I was choosing between Fedora/Debian I seemed to
be choosing between newer/more up to date software (kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2 etc.)
or a proven, stable & well established distribution. Of course redhat which
fedora is based on has been around for a while now ;~)
To find out about A2RT have a look at a2rt.org It's basically set up to
create a media lab/open access space by recycling donated systems. Based in
Brum. They have a warehouse now too so it's looking good.
cheers
kev
On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 13:12, Peter Cannon wrote:
> On Thursday 19 Aug 2004 12:27, The wise and knowledgeable kev adams
> proclaimed:
>
> Hi Kev
>
> Nice to see your mail, I use FC2, Suse pro 9.1
>
> What was the issue with FC? also what is A2RT? I liked Mandrake I think its
> the bees knees for newbies.
>
> I am not a Debian demi-god yet I tried to install it but the machine was a
> little old, got Slackware on it instead.
>
> I've been learning Linux for about 18 months can just about switch the dam
> thing on :-)
>
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kev at magicmoon.co.uk
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