[Coco] Recommendations & Assistance

[Alan Jones]

I concur with Frank. Linux Mint is solid distro and very plug and play.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint

I am using Linux Mint 14 Nadia here on my old Compaq F750US laptop.
I like a lighter desktop environment (XFCE).

http://www.xfce.org/

Good luck on your new OS install.

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Frank Swygert
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:53 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Recommendations & Assistance

Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:17:52 -0700
From: Ed Orbea<ed.orbea at gmail.com>

My Wndows XP system suffered the blue-screen-o-death.

I used it for a DW3 / DW4 Server
I used VCC and the Winimage tool to create .dsk files that we ultimately
used on a real CoCo3 In your opinions, do I (a) re-install WIndows XP (b) an
older version of Windows (i.e. 98) or (c) switch or a Linux distro?
If I switch to Linux, what is the consensus regarding the distro (ubuntu,
mint, suse, etc.)?
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The only fix in most cases is to reinstall Windows -- or another OS. If
you're going to try Linux I recommend Mint. It's Ubuntu based, but has all
the drivers and codecs (even proprietary but free to use ones) needed. It's
the most "install and go" Linux distro available. If you have a dual core
processor go wit the latest distro. If you have an older single core machine
I'd stick with Mint 9. I'm using the latest on my home machine but use 9 on
my shop computer, which is a 3.0 GHz P4, 800 MHz FSB, 1GB ram (older Sony
Vaio). I think I'm using Mint 7 on my P3 laptop. You can't tell much
difference in the Mint versions (I use MATE on my latest version instead of
the Gnome shell -- MATE is an extension of the older shell/desktop, the new
one is more Windows 7 ish and I don't like it -- Mint gives you the option
of using either easily). The older Ubuntu kernels just work better with
older processors. Mint 12 will load and run on the Vaio, but is noticeably
slower.

--
Frank Swygert
Editor - American Motors Cars Magazine
www.amc-mag.com



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