On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:33:49 -0700, stu wrote: > Absolutely! The more I have to work with Windows, the more I appreciate > Linux! Sorry to create confusion, Irony is one of the lower forms of > humor! > Stu "To say the least, I am very disappointed [with Win98]" That addition probably would have prevented the confusion. It wasn't the English, just a mind hack. [http://safari.oreilly.com/JVXSL.asp?x=1&mode=section&sortKey=rank&sortOrd] If you don't include the right information at the right time, the brain will confabulate information where it never existed. One big paragraph with a whole lot of resolution problems and NIC detection problems reminds the post-initiate Linux user of the time they had a six-hour deal with X11 and another two-day deal with a winmodem. >> > 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 -- Alexander --------------------------------------------------- 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