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- Scott McCallister
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Problems? I LOVE the choice!
I advise newbies to try mepis. You can even use it while you install! Software installation with synaptic is super easy too. Click on the software you want, hit apply, and voila!
I use mepis on my "It just works" laptop.
My desktp PC seems to get a new distro every week! But I keep slackware on constantly. (Multiple distros)
People- you can run Window$ AND Linux on the same machine. Just a selection at startup!
I advise newbies to try mepis. You can even use it while you install! Software installation with synaptic is super easy too. Click on the software you want, hit apply, and voila!
I use mepis on my "It just works" laptop.
My desktp PC seems to get a new distro every week! But I keep slackware on constantly. (Multiple distros)
People- you can run Window$ AND Linux on the same machine. Just a selection at startup!
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- vomitbunny
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I've played with linux from time to time, the last couple of times using run from a cd distros. Knopix and......the other escapes me (dynabolix?). I keep running into a bug which affects typing. One letter or number being substituted for another. Then another will go haywire, until after a little while, the keyboard gets to be useless.
My opinion is stupid and wrong.
Do you have a non US keyboard?vomitbunny wrote:I've played with linux from time to time, the last couple of times using run from a cd distros. Knopix and......the other escapes me (dynabolix?). I keep running into a bug which affects typing. One letter or number being substituted for another. Then another will go haywire, until after a little while, the keyboard gets to be useless.
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In general I'd agree. I'm fed up with my iBook G3 at the moment. It's been painfully sluggish for several weeks now. Not the broadband speed, that's ok. It's doing anything else--mouse response, program launching, scrolling--ouch, ouch, ouch--and Firefox keeps crashing.
This one is reaching it's 4-5 year planned obsolescence at age 2.
This one is reaching it's 4-5 year planned obsolescence at age 2.
I havent kept up with macs Didn't know firefox was released for powerPC archetecture!
Try linux on your Ibook. Less "just works" But I find linux very simple, even though it is complicated. It just makes sense! Reliable too! If it works, it works, and wrks, and works
Try linux on your Ibook. Less "just works" But I find linux very simple, even though it is complicated. It just makes sense! Reliable too! If it works, it works, and wrks, and works
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