[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO

[Stephen Castello]

On Wed, 02 May 2007 11:06:33 -0500, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>At 10:24 PM 5/1/2007, you wrote:
>>Now if Linux would figure out how to provide & install drivers as easy
>>as Windows & Mac.  The last time I tried Linux on a Shuttle SN85G4V3
>>with an old Nvidia 5500 agp.  The instructions: go to the web site and
>>get it.  Instructions on web site: just compile it & install. Then it
>>needed other bits that didn't exist. Around that time the GUI
>>disappeared to the command prompt. The error message basically said to
>>do a reinstall.  That ended that Linux attempt.  I forget which distro
>>it was.
>
> From the responses I get sometimes, I think some people must love 
>tinkering with the OS instead of actually using it.  I admit, it 
>looks like a field day for keyboard techies, and I'm not denying 
>being one, but I just need it to work without having to build it 
>myself.  I think there's just way too many distros of "Linux", 
>anyway.  I quoted the word because everybody calls their version 
>Linux but yet they want to claim that it's different and better than 
>other distros. And, if they Are that different, then Linux will never 
>evolve the way we would like it to.  My 2 cents.

Linux has improved over the years, but they need to reduce the
selection.  I've downloaded Ubuntu 7.04 live cd and so far it likes
running on the Shuttle, which now has an ATI 1650Pro for the video.  I
bought the ATI to try out Vista aero glass at a reasonable speed.  I
found that UAC is really User Aggravation Crap, it just gets in the
way too much and silently kills off programs.

Stephen
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