-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 01:56, Mike McCarty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:01:00PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>>> >>>> Ever worked with RHEL or Fedora (or Red Hat before that)? They have >>> >>> I don't run Debian. >>> >>> $ uname -a >>> Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 >>> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux >>> >>> The first Linux I installed was Red Hat 6.something. >>> >> >> I see. My first Linux install was RedHat 8. When a friend showed me >> Debian I knew that it was possible for things to make sense. > > Interesting. My girlfriend is getting very close to tossing > Debian out. Just last weekend, I convinced her to hang on > for just a bit longer, before reinstalling Windows. She's > pretty tired of no sound, inability to use a USB mouse, > inability to use her printer fully, inability to use her > camera's memory stick, and lack of response from Debian > maintainers.
All of those should work, with (depending on the card/chip) the possible exception of sound. If you can't make Debian work, install Ubuntu. That's what it's for. And don't feel yourself a failure. I couldn't get RH5.2 installed, and, when it was time to buy a new computer, bought one pre-installed with Mandrake 6.0. It took me quite a while to get used to The Unix Way. > > Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF9lfQS9HxQb37XmcRAhkhAJ9oPr/XyjLoOKNEcOopVUeihi7xnQCeLAuD 8KCn1vexGqVSq5c7T15FiUc= =0tbl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
