[clue-talk] Linux Desktop reliable ?

[Pietto Vasco]

I have run several distros of Linux with no problem at all. I have tried
mandriva, suse8.0-9.0, slackware 9.0, puppy Linux and ubuntu and never had
any reliability issues. I have installed these on Dell laptops 95% of the
time. I have gone with Linux because it works with older hardware, I cant
see buying my 15 & 11 year old a $1500 (x2) laptop for school, when I can
find cheap older dell laptop (CPI, CPX)and install ubuntu and/or puppy Linux
and have it work ( and the performance/speed is pretty good too). Hardware
has never been a problem. 

Pietto L Vasco
IT Director 
Colorado Grande Casino
(w) 719-689-3517 ext 33
(c) 719-684-4743
 
Reboot first then call me

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Fierro [mailto:biffster at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:31 AM
To: CLUE talk
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] Linux Desktop reliable ?

On 7/31/06, rex evans <rexfordevans at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Are there reliable distros?
> Is this only a problem related
> to Debian and derivatives?

As opposed to some others on the list (most notably Collins, who has
had some bad luck with hardware compatibility), I've had no problems
with Debian-based distros. Well, no problems that I didn't cause
myself, anyway. :) I ran Debian testing for a long, long time and was
quite happy with it. But it IS a testing distro, and some changes were
made that didn't agree with my system (ie some of my favorite packages
were removed from the repository). So I moved over to Ubuntu, and have
been very happy since.

I reckon you could call what I am running Xubuntu, since I am an XFCE
guy and installed XFCE the second I had Ubuntu up and running. But
really, Ubuntu is Ubuntu, a simplified, revved up version of Debian.
[grin] I would not use anything but Ubuntu at this point, and I'd
point all new Linux users to use Ubuntu (Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu)
also.

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