Debian has been suggested several times, so I'm tempted. Point me to a web site that will convince me its worth the effort to switch. --Phil M. ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Wultsch To: Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope > Ever think about debian? > > Phil Mattison wrote: > > > This system is a PentiumIII 600MHz with 128MB RAM in a genuine Intel > > motherboard. No strange hardware, recent Netgear PCI LAN card, ordinary ATA > > CD-ROM drive and floppy, SIS-300 graphics chip, and that's it. Took me about > > a day and a half to install RH7.3, get samba running and setup Apache. Its > > fairly stable so long as I connect via SSH from a remote terminal or move > > files via samba (I edit on a Win98 box). I used to leave it on for weeks at > > a time. But I like to use the KDE email reader to check my server logs etc, > > and gradually I noticed a correlation between using that and system > > instability. Now I shut it down every night and minimize my KDE/Gnome usage, > > so the effort to figure out the problem is more than that of avoiding it. I > > have a RH8.0 box set I was going to upgrade to, but heard that RH major > > releases tend to be the least stable (what the !?!?!). I think the > > open-source community is like the Bizarro world of computing, to borrow from > > Sienfeld. Just the same, I love a free lunch. I guess I just have to chew > > carefully. > > --Phil M. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Alan Dayley > > To: > > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:28 PM > > Subject: RE: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope > > > > > > > >>Occam's Razor applies here. > >> > >>On a particular box Linux is unstable but Windows 98 is stable. Why? > >> > >>Is it more probable that thousands of other installations of that same > > > > Linux distro version are also unstable and the users are lying about the > > stablility? > > > >>OR > >> > >>Is it more probable that the particular computer has odd or flakey > > > > hardware or some other issue that the particular Linux distro version does > > not handle well? > > > >>There is some flakey or poorly documented hardware, especially in some > > > > older PCs, that just don't run Linux correctly. IMO Linux actually pushes > > the hardware harder than Win98 ever will. Marginal chips or vendors that > > won't release required information make it hard to write good drivers for > > some hardware. > > > >>OTOH, it could be something else. :^) > >> > >>Alan > >> > >>-------Original Message------- > >>From: Tom Achtenberg > >>Sent: 06/12/03 01:08 PM > >>To: "'plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us'" > > > > > > > >>Subject: RE: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope > >> > >> > >>>Phil, I had the same problems with my RH 7.3 box. It was much less > > > > stable > > > >>than my Windows 98 box! I finally gave up. I'm now trying Mandrake 9.1. > >>It took 4 days and several attempts to get the install completed without > >>errors. (Found the disk 1 iso on the Hawaii mirror is bad too.) I > > > > haven't > > > >>had much time to work with it yet, but it has been a disappointment too. > >>Mandrake update doesn't work to start with. The whole task bar at the > >>bottom of the screen keeps disappearing too. Only way to get it back is > > > > to log > > > >>off and log back on. This same box would run for weeks on Win 98 with no > >>errors. I have not even tried to connect to my file server or printers > > > > yet. > > > >> If I cannot do it without manually editing files I'll probably just put > >>Windows back on and forget about Linux for a desktop. > >> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------- > >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss