On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:47:01 -0700, June Tate wrote: > > Well, I had just enough time to drop off the bunch of Ubuntu CDs I had > and then head out -- I had a prior meeting with a friend of mine and > couldn't stick around to talk much. I'm planning on attending the > following meetings on the East side, though, so if anybody's interested > I could do a short presentation on Ubuntu sometime. =o) Thanks, June, for bringing in those CDs. I took one and installed it. Since you weren't at the meeting and didn't hear this part, I'll explain why I desparately wanted one. Once upon a time (just after the first of the year), in a land far, far away (the rapidly-being-rebuilt south Phoenix), I read a Fry's Electronics ad. I decided to finally do something about my Linux itch. (I'd played with it 5+ years ago, but only for a short time.) I noticed a $200 desktop with Linspire 4.5 pre-installed (AMD Sempron 2200+, 128 Megs RAM, 40 Gig HD). I also purchased a new USB wireless "card" (I didn't know, though, that it was literally only 3 months old technology). After struggling a whole bunch with the too-new wireless device, I gave up and reverted to an older USB wireless device. But, Linspire tries to hold your hand a little too much (and I know too much about computers, OSes, etc.) to be comfortable with how I was being forced to do things. Imagine my surprise when, even after downloading all that's normally needed to recompile the kernel, I couldn't. The first step (kernel 2.4.24's "make dep") would terminate with a "device name too long" error. Oy! Yesterday morning, I started my Windows computer on the task of downloading all 14 CD ISO's of Debian. I decided to go the Debian route because of all the talk I've seen on the list and elsewhere. (I found out last night I really only need the first CD ISO if I also have a high-speed connection.) Then, when you brought Ubuntu and Hans talked about all the Debian flavors out there, Ubuntu included, I decided to give that a try instead. I did. ...And they (well, he) lived happily ever after. :-) So, June, thanks heaps and gobs for bringing Ubuntu! -- Ric Fischer --------------------------------------------------- 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