[CS-FSLUG] OS/2 Anyone?
Vincent Danen
vdanen at linsec.ca
Fri Apr 4 16:41:08 CDT 2008
* [2008-04-04 16:24:06 -0500] Ed Hurst wrote:
>Vincent Danen wrote:
>
>> *If* you can install Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I found a machine that
>> wouldn't even install on it. Had to stick with my trusty Mandriva. =)
>
>I've found Ubuntu won't even boot on some machines. Others it would
>never complete loading. These same machines are running other distros
>just fine. Not sure what to make of that. On one ancient laptop I had
>Debian vanilla get all installed, then when trying to install Grub
>before the reboot, the thing shutdown. Same laptop ran RedHat just fine.
Yeah... it's thinks like that which make me not a huge fan of Ubuntu.
I've had systems that Ubuntu won't boot (to even get the installer
going), but SUSE handled it fine (less some hardware support), and
Mandriva worked 100% (everything supported).
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Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/
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