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I mis read this too. He says Windows was crap, Ubuntu
installed/booted/ran flawlessly or nearly flawlessly. I had to read it a
couple of times :)

Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
> I have had the exact opposite experience with Ubuntu.  A machine I ran it on
> (Live CD) recognized everything including Video and Networking.  This
> machine is a pentium 450 with an ATI video card and I think a 3com network
> card.  I was very surprised and happy with how it recognized the hardware.
> I have in the past always had a problem with some piece of hardware (usually
> a video card or network adapter).
> 
> You should be able to use debian drivers with it, though I don't know how
> that works since I am familiar only with the way Redhat does things.
> 
> Gilbert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of stu
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:25 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Arrgh!
> 
> 	I have an old Compaq with a Giga-Bite GA 5-smm MB, 256 Mb ram
> running an AMD
> K6-2 cpu I'm fixing up as a loaner for a friend. My friend prefers Windows,
> but I decided it would be a good chance to expose him to some Linux, so I
> decided to load Ubuntu on it as a second OS.
> 	To say the least, I am very disappointed. After spending several
> hours on the install, the video is stuck in 640x480, and the OS can't even
> find the ethernet card. I took another hour to find the video and LAN
> drivers I need to get it working properly, but the ones I've downloaded so
> far don't work at all. After more fruitless searching, I'm beginning to
> think the drivers I need for it simply don't exist. It's rapidly becoming an
> exercise in frustration.
> 	Fortunately, the Ubuntu partition booted up and ran without a flaw
> from the very start, with full SVGA resolution, and it logs onto my home
> network in a heartbeat. MEPIS, Puppy, and DSL ran just as well on it
> earlier, so that in itself tells me the hardware is working OK.
> 	After I finish with this last old box,  think I'll stick all my old
> Windows
> '98 and ME CDs in the toaster, and make expensive Christmas ornaments out of
> them so I won't be tempted to try this again!
> 	With tongue firmly in cheek,
> 	Stu
> 	
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