[FWD: RE: Re[2]: Linux flavours]

I personally prefer Ubuntu, also based on Debian.  More user-frendly
than its ancestor, it is perhaps one of the most popular distros.
Another well-known one is Fedora 12. 


Happy Linuxing !!!


JF

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  -------- Original Message --------
 Subject: Re: Re[2]: [oclug] Linux flavours
 From: Dumitru Ciobanu <[email protected]>
 Date: Thu, December 10, 2009 5:31 pm
 To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
 
 You may wanna try Xandrons (Debian based). I remember a few years ago
 there was a project that deployed a few hundreds Dell D600 for some
 university in Nova Scotia. Sorry I don't remember the details.
 
 On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
 > Howard,
 >
 > Sorry, I'm not currently running openSuse myself thus I'd have to
google it
 > myself which negates any unique value I can offer. Perhaps someone
else
 > knows off the cuff, otherwise I'm sure you'll find it quickly.
 >
 > Andrew
 >
 > 2009/12/7 Howard Krakower <[email protected]>
 >
 >> Thanks.
 >>
 >> Do you know whether this fix will work where grub loads openSUSe
11.2?
 >> I can easily logon, but to shutdown, I have to go into the console
 >> mode and type "shutdown now -h" to get a complete shutdown.
 >>
 >> Howard
 >>
 >> Monday, December 7, 2009, 10:47:20 AM, Andrew Ross wrote:
 >>
 >> > Hi Howard,
 >>
 >> > I had the same issue with one of my Dell machines. I suspect
adding
 >> > i8042.reset to your boot options will fix your keyboard issues
when not
 >> on
 >> > A/C power.
 >>
 >> > e.g. if you're using grub on Ubuntu as a bootloader
 >>
 >> > edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
 >>
 >> > And change the line that looks like this:
 >> > # kopt=root=UUID=c10a4641-f9b2-8b06-7127-bb1ba1fe45d4 ro
 >>
 >> > To be this
 >> > # kopt=root=UUID=c10a4641-f9b2-8b06-7127-bb1ba1fe45d4 ro
i8042.reset
 >>
 >> > Save, then run "update-grub" as root.
 >>
 >> > Then reboot. In theory, it *should* go away.
 >>
 >> > Andrew
 >>
 >> > 2009/11/10 Howard Krakower <[email protected]>
 >>
 >> >> There *has* to ba a flavour that actually works with the Dell
D600
 >> >> notebook, but I can't find it.
 >> >>
 >> >> Last year I installed Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) and it ran OK. Then
the
 >> >> upgrades came out - Ibex and Jackalope - with Ibex getting
somewhat
 >> >> flakey and Jackalope totally freezing the system. So I tried
Fedora,
 >> >> but it wouldn't even load the install CD.
 >> >>
 >> >> To check to see if this was a hardware issue (after all the D600
is
 >> >> about 5 years old), I reinstalled Windoze. The system worked
fine, so
 >> >> I knew that the issue was not hardware.
 >> >>
 >> >> So I installed openSUSE 11.1. Initially it ran well, but after
doing
 >> >> an update the logon screen wouldn't accept input from the
keyboard (as
 >> >> in typing in the password) if the system was running on battery;
it
 >> >> worked only if the system was plugged into 110 volts.
 >> >>
 >> >> Because of the ease of getting the wireless network to work
(Ubuntu
 >> >> was horror story) I opted to totally reinstall openSUSE 11.1 -
 >> >> everything worked just fine both on battery power and AC. Then
there
 >> >> were a number of security updates, which I installed and the
system has
 >> >> reverted to only allowing a logon when on AC power. The other
downside
 >> >> is that getting the multimedia player to play .wmv .avi and .flv
 >> >> formats still hasn't been solved (these all worked fine in
Ubuntu).
 >> >>
 >> >> Does anyone know of a flavour of linux that will work with a Dell
D600
 >> >> notebook (uses a Broadcom BCM4318 wireless NIC)?
 >> >>
 >> >> Howard
 >> >>
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