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
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 15:38, Patrick Fleming, EA wrote:
> 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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