Re: Local Linux builders?

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/7-providers-of-pre-installed-linux.html    Might be useful. Zareason stands out.

If you are friends with any local vendors ask if you can put a live version of your intended distro in their demonstrator and see if all of the functions work. You would be surprised with what different distros do and don’t do in the same hardware. See for example last post at
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=58616&start=40   

or this exchange:

Anonymous said... 
Natty was working fine for about a week and then I decided to see if I could make the fonts in Firefox stay large enough to read. I was getting tired of using Ctrl+Scroll Wheel on every page. Long story short:I broke my desktop. Had nothing but wall to wall Ubuntu brown. Reboot did not help.Just between you and me, I think it is piss poor when you can break your OS without ever using Admin privileges. Anyway, Ctl+Alt+F1 user, password, sudo unity --reset, sudo service gdm restart restored the desktop. The question is: HOW DO I KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN? (Please suppress the urge to say "don't play with it".)
Natty 32 bit. Nvidia 8600GT video card. 24 inch LED monitor. 

June 19, 2011 8:49 PM  
Sikander Hayat Khan said... 
@Anonymous:

Unity and compiz don't fit together, yet. Learn to survive with this release and wait for Ubuntu 11.10 which would be far more stable, I believe. You can do 'unity --reset' whenever you manage to break it again.

Yeh the answer was the same you expected I know i.e, 'don't play with it'. But, we don't have many choices yet. 

June 19, 2011 9:44 PM  

How does this crap get released?
Mike Burks



From: Richard Perry 
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:02 AM
To: aclug-discussion-/[email protected] 
Subject: [aclug-L] Local Linux builders?

Anyone know if there's a local company that builds Linux systems? My wife's desktop is on the way out, and I think I've finally gotten her convinced to switch. I can do it myself, but am really busy this month, so might prefer a prebuilt, if there's someone in town who does that sort of thing.

Regards,
Richard Perry
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