[Cialug] Distro choice? Was: Reloaded Debian

[Tom Sellers]

Actually I had tried to go with Ubuntu 8.04 from the beginning per a suggestion from Josh More.  However,  I was never able to get it to load on this laptop.  I actually tried to install it again before re-installing Debian 4 this time and had the same issue.  I ran the media check and it did not find any issues with the CD that I have.  Not sure what that is all about but it does not work.

I also tried to load Opensuse 11.0 on this laptop as well and it hangs up before completing the installation as well.

I suspect that the laptop is old enough that there may be some hardware issue with being compatible with Ubuntu and Opensuse.  Unfortunately I don't have any other hardware to install on so I am somewhat limited.  Based on what I had read in the past I thought that Linux was able to run on older hardware without any issues.  I guess that is not necessarily the case.

I'll just try to make do with Debian for the time being even though it may be a bit more difficult.

I'd be happy to let someone try to install from my CD to something to verify that it works or doesn't!


--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> From: Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
> Subject: [Cialug] Distro choice? Was: Reloaded Debian
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 1:22 PM
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Tom Sellers
> <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If I don't install anything after the reload and
> browse to the www.kcci.com site I get a box with "Click
> here to download plugin" in the middle.  You are
> correct that I can browse the rest of the page without any
> seeming problems.  It is just missing something that I would
> normally see when using a Windows browser to visit this
> site.
> >
> > Is this what you mean?
> >
> 
> Hi, Debian is not well known to be the most "easy to
> get your feet
> wet" with distribution. If you don't mind me
> tossing out a biased
> suggestion, I'd like to suggest trying out Ubuntu.
> It's closely
> related to Debian and makes a lot of the common "new
> to LInux" tasks
> quite easy. Pretty much all of the software you can use on
> Debian is
> available for Ubuntu since Ubuntu pulls from debian every
> few months.
> As a matter of fact, numerous Debian developers are
> employed by
> Canonical, the sponsors of Ubuntu. It also has some partner
> software
> from vendors such as vmware, adobe and sun so things like
> java, flash
> and etc. installation is quite easy.
> 
> Just an idea.
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