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| Thread ID: 67594 | 2006-04-01 00:47:00 | Which recent Linux distros have style | Hokonui (8280) | PC World Chat |
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| 442594 | 2006-04-01 00:47:00 | For those who have tried a range of Lnx distros, what do people recommended for style, elegance & usability "out of the box" ? For use on a home media player type desktop Preferably that will work with my DSE wireless pci (Realtek8185) with a minimun of fuss. Have recently tried the latest PCLinuxOS, Arch & Yoper offerings and like them but haven't yet been able to make my wireless work in any. |
Hokonui (8280) | ||
| 442595 | 2006-04-01 01:48:00 | style? hmmmm Ubuntu, hands down. it's got an African theme, drums and stuff every time you do anything. However, the style is something you can easily create on any distro, afterall you choose the colors and stuff |
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| 442596 | 2006-04-01 02:38:00 | Ubuntu was next on my list to try. Although it's easy to change colours etc I've found it's not easy to produce a pleasing & coordinated package - hence the request re style. What's Ubuntu like re hardware detection |
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| 442597 | 2006-04-01 02:56:00 | I think it's good.. it had problems finding something (can't remember what) on my old POS laptop, but everything with that machine was a problem.. I settled on Mepis, which works for everything. We we're running it on one of my sons machines, and he was really impressed. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 442598 | 2006-04-01 03:16:00 | Thanks for that, I tried Mepis a couple of years ago and it went pretty well as I recall. Will have a look at the latest version also. You don't happen to know anything about the Lnx/DSE wireless card thing? I've followed a bunch of wiki's & forums and stuff but haven't had any luck getting it working - is ok in WinXP but even ndiswrapping that driver doesn't seem to work (PCLinuxOS) |
Hokonui (8280) | ||
| 442599 | 2006-04-01 03:35:00 | Thanks for that, I tried Mepis a couple of years ago and it went pretty well as I recall. Will have a look at the latest version also. You don't happen to know anything about the Lnx/DSE wireless card thing? I've followed a bunch of wiki's & forums and stuff but haven't had any luck getting it working - is ok in WinXP but even ndiswrapping that driver doesn't seem to work (PCLinuxOS) dse use to have linux drivers for that card but it seems to have disappeared off there website. Jen the mod had a link for it at one stage |
plod (107) | ||
| 442600 | 2006-04-01 03:47:00 | I'm currently running Mepis on 2 machines.. One is a very old machine that has a 400MHz CPU. Mepis doesn't like this machine. Multitasking is a shortcut to freezing. I'm also running it on a machine with a 1700MHz CPU and 256Mb of RAM. This is the sort of machine i would consider minimal for Mepis3.4.3 It runs very well on this. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 442601 | 2006-04-01 07:25:00 | SuSE is very polished . I like it as a desktop distro . Hmmm, wireless networking and Linux . I bought a PCI wireless network from DSE as they had the source for the driver(s) but I could not get it to go . I have tried Ubuntu, Simply Mepis, Knoppix, SuSE and none have gone out of the box . Most have detected the wireless card but no go . I have searched the internet and have found quite a bit about Linux and wireless networking but still cannot get it to go . So at the moment its Windows wireless networking only for me :annoyed: I think its called a challenge . |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 442602 | 2006-04-01 09:22:00 | ubuntu is pretty good at hardware detection ( I use it on an P1). You may find it has issue with older pci video cards such s3 trios (ah the benifit of experance :badpc: ) But I find with modern systems its got most hardware covered. | beama (111) | ||
| 442603 | 2006-04-01 09:34:00 | Thanks Dolby, that pretty much mirrors my experience. I hadn't looked at SUSE as it seemed a bit mainstream and I guess I was looking for something different. PCLinuxOS was the closest I got. Managed wireless install eventually with send & recieve but didn't actually manage a connection. Got fed up as the whole process involved multiple hangs which became tedious. The problem I have is that I only have internet via wireless on "my" pc, so without a functioning connection I'm accused of hogging the family pc looking for answers. I should settle on one or other of these distros and learn it and hopefully all will be revealed - or maybe just go back to WinXP and rediscover linux at a later date! |
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