[K]ubuntu

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I just downloaded and burned some copies oth both Ubuntu and Kubuntu
for my students. It detected a low res screen, so I personally like
Knoppix a bit better. (Again, this is the standalone CD not the
installed version).

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:37:25 -0500
Matej Cepl <ceplm at seznam.cz> wrote:

> (posting back to the group, where it belongs)
> 
> On Mon 23. January 2006 07:43, Nicholas Bodley wrote:
> > has a P II 233 MHz, and was upgraded to 128 MB of RAM. Its
> 
> Enough (barely, but enough) for KDE in my experience. The processor is weak,
> so don't expect your computer to fly, but it should be enough for ordinary
> work (emails, writing etc.).
> 
> > sound is on the motherboard, an ESS 1869 chip, and iirc, the
> 
> No experience here -- apparently (after brief browse through Yahoo! Search)
> there are plenty of issues with it, but it should be generally supported by
> ALSA.
> 
> > printer I was using (and still am using) was an HP Laserjet
> > 6L. As well as I can remember, it either did not find the
> > printer, or if it did, I couldn't configure it. Sound was
> 
> That's hard to believe LJ 6L is the most ordinary printer possible.
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_6L
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=87803
> 
> > probably the same story. My modem (which I do not use) is
> > amazingly hard to find; although the machine has two physical
> > COM: ports, the modem is on COM3: in Windows. Almost no Linux
> > distributions can find it.
> 
> Modems are PITA, but if it is Lucent based (many softmodems are, alas, the
> one on my laptop is not!), then http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ and/or
> www.linmodems.org (apparently, the latter is currently down). If it is not,
> you have to buy driver from www.linuxant.com -- I did and I pretty happy
> with that (except, that I don't use it anymore, because of Verizon's DSL
> for $14 :-)).
> 
> > I'm a nonmalicious hacker, and I think I wanted more tools
> > (such as a good file manager) than I found in [K]Ubuntu.
> 
> krusader
> 
> > Nevertheless, I think the Ubuntu people have been doing a very
> > nice job, and my experience is not typical. I'd say, try the
> > live CD, and if you can undo it, maybe make a trial
> > installation. While I understand why you asked me, please
> 
> I will -- time permitting, of course.
> 
> > For the near future, I'll be trying to recover data from a big
> > FAT32 archive partition, and that will probably be taking up a
> > lot of my energy.
> 
> ??? What's problem with that?
> 
> Matej
> 
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