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Re: [LUG] Just to pop something on the board!!

 


GeekLord wrote:
> christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>   
>> Posted by "Berry Christopher" <christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>> On Sunday my new OS PCLinuxOS went haywire and would only let me in via local 
>> host and command line!'Unwritable comments!'
>> So I took the opportunity of replacing it with Fedora 7 which looks good but 
>> refuses to allow me to have a mouse pointer, therefore, not a lot of use to my 
>> setup!! 
>> So I replaced it with Mandriva's Free Spring which set up well but I found to be 
>> NOT as friendly as other OSs!
>> So I am back in PCLinuxOS and it is working a treat for now!
>> I have to say that I do prefer PCLinuxOS to Ubuntu 7.04 - a somewhat sacrilegious 
>> statement, but the truth - I just hope it proves to be stable!!
>> What other Linux OSs are there that are worth trying? 
>> Sincerely,
>> Grandad Berry.
>> --
>>     
> I'd stick with pclinuxos personaly. I have ubuntu on the laptop, but pclos on pc's 
> for the serious stuff, it has the right mix of usability, lots of apps to download 
> , looks good and has the best device recognition I've come accross (ubuntu does 
> recognise my wifi device, but only after a lot of mucking around while pclos is 
> the only distro which set it up by default).
Simon

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Simon Robert
www.oldhouse-cottage.co.uk


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