[CS-FSLUG] Linux Today - Is desktop Linux too fragmented to succeed? A friend tells it like it is!!

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Sat May 2 13:35:25 CDT 2009


Davo Smith wrote:
> [Lots of good points about what is needed to get Linux to take off on
> the desktop]
> 
>>        Thoughts?
> 
> To be honest, at this moment what I would most like is for Ubuntu 9.04
> not to have broken several things that worked fine in Ubuntu 8.10
> (like my TV out, mencoder recording TV, processor being at 100% all
> the time).
> 
> Before anyone asks, I haven't filed any bug reports yet, as I was
> going to try out a clean install first - but that didn't load the
> nVidia drivers or Firefox...
> 
> Maybe it's time to try out a different distro (as I've not tried that
> many others than Ubuntu).

Download the openSUSE 11.1 DVD iso....burn it and give it a try.

Fred

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Gun-toting Americans are clearly more self-sufficient than the sissy
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always secretly wondered what it would be like to be taken by a Somali
pirate.
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