[Cialug] Ubuntu cds

[Renegade Muskrat]

 >There really haven't been many Gnome desktop distros, Redhat being 
the
 >only real choice for years, but now we have Ubuntu.

I wouldn't say Red Hat is the only choice for Gnome. My brother 
acquired a new computer recently. His old one had Red Hat 9 that i set 
up for him. I asked if he wanted Linux or Windows on the new one (he 
definitely is not a "computer person" either) and he chose Linux. He 
mainly uses the computer for web surfing and games. From his 
perspective, Linux comes with better games; it certainly comes with 
more than a default install of Windows. Anyway, last weekend i 
installed Debian on his new machine (since that's the distro i've been 
playing around with the most recently and i'm *really* starting to like 
the aptitude way of managing packages and keeping the system up to 
date). I was going to set up KDE, since of the massively bloated window 
managers, it is the one that i have a slight preference for. But sound 
in games didn't work when KDE was running. Switched to Gnome and 
suddenly everything works. So he'll most likely be using Gnome.

Personally, i prefer AfterStep, with everything but the Pager module 
turned off. Debian is one of the few distros that still includes 
AfterStep. And that was on my short list of reasons that i switched my 
main machine to Debian a few weeks back.


Since Ubuntu is mentioned, reminds me I need to try it. I downloaded it 
not long ago, and the md5 sum checked out, but i think the CD i burned 
it onto was bad because it wouldn't get very far in the boot process 
before dying. When the bootup died, it started spinning the CD drive at 
speeds heretofore unknown to it. Sounded like the thing was preparing 
to take off. If i burn another copy i expect it will work better.
                                                -- Dan
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