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On Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:21, David Bell wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 15:17, viv wrote: > > We have tried countless Linux distros on our little sub notebook and > > they all run very slowly (or not at all). PCLinuxOS 2007 (as recommended > > to me by Grandpa B at the Penzance event) is now installed and running > > very well on it. I installed it on our big laptop previously and must > > say that I am very impressed with it to the extent that it may woo me > > away from Kubuntu. Thanks Grandpa B ! > > I found 2 problems with it. The first was that on my box GRUB recognised > the (regretable) existence of XP - but not Etch. Secondly, KMail seemed > unstable when auto and manually checking more than one POP account and > often froze. Being a cold wet day with nothing else to do, three installs > plus updates didn't cure anything. > > Not complaining, as I know I can always rely on either "good ol' Etch" or > <ducks quickly>; Kbuntu on my MacBook instead :) > > -- > W. Devon > ----------- > A GNU/Linux user I've just installed PCLOS 2008 on an 850MHz AMD, 375Mb RAM, 17 Gb hard drive that I'm giving to a friend and it runs very well. But it doesn't have Kmail or Kontact on it's repositories which may be because of the instability mentioned. Thunderbird seems OK so I think I'll leave it for now. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html