[CS-FSLUG] Nathan

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 10:31 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> I appreciate the offer but it won't be necessary, I think I'll be
> settling on Mandrake if Tim and Dave can help me with getting it to work
> right with my USB thumb drive, or SUSE if another SUSE user in the list
> can confirm for me that only the FTP install version has the 1+ minute
> delay when plugging in or unplugging devices (I would preffer if the
> test could be done with a USB thumb drive of 32 Mb in size or bigger, I
> don't know if other USB devices would reproduce the conditions under
> which SUSE does that on my computer). Just for the record I think
> Mandrake will be my first choice because I've always preffered it when
> it was working.

Hi Nathan,

How about this:

Take Kelly's offer for the hard drive.

Put that in your computer for testing other distro's.

Then since the official release of mandrake will not be available for download 
for some time, and your hinting that you will go back to mandrake, in the 
meantime  join me with Fedora core which im running now, until mandrake 
official comes out. 

Then join me in installing mandrake official download on another partition and 
we will give that a shot also.

This way, you will have a good month or 2 or maybe 3 before mandrake comes out 
to get a really good oppinion about fedora and how it works. Then when we 
install mandrake 10.0 official, we can have some good ideas about whether it 
would be better to keep running fedora, or make the switch back to mandrake.

Also, there are some people on the list that know fedora really well, and so 
Im sure they would give us hints and tips and information about fedora if we 
asked.

So far, there is only one drawback about using fedora on my computer and that 
is having to work with Sane to get my scanner working instead of having a 
tool to do that for me.

But thats a very small aspect that I know I can fix or work around and so I am 
giving fedora serious consideration because I really like the stability it 
has shown.

And with your USB thumbdrive, I am willing to help you google and ask 
questions if I cannot resolve your problem myself, but that will require 
patience from you until we can find the right answer even if it means setting 
it up just to get it workable and bearing with the drawbacks until we can 
find out how to get it working 100% accuratly.

Whaddya say?

>
> I've also read over my blog post and I can see how it could be
> misunderstood, make no mistake I did not intend for it to sound as if I
> was angry at the CS-FSLUG list members, not did I intend it to sound
> rude or accusative. Perhaps one of the hardest things for me because I
> preffer to be upfront and honest is clear communication :-/ .

Lets put that behind us. It's already forgotten here. 

> Anyway I hope I didn't offend anyone and I'm sorry if I did.

And im sorry if I said anything to offend you.

>
> kellyarmstrong at prodigy.net wrote:
> >[snip]
> >I only have one computer and one hard drive, I've found that running two
> >or more distros on the same hard drive can be disastrous, especially
> >when they both use the same home partition. My only option if I want to
> >find my favorite distribution is to try different ones until I get one
> >that I like.
> >[snip]
> >
> >Hi Nathan,
> >	I've got an extra 20gig hard drive I could mail you. I'd like to see
> >you do both things, keep one distro and try out a bunch of new
> >ones :-). I enjoy the info you give.
> >
> >Hi my name is Kelly and I too am an Installaholic.
> >
> >In Christ, Kelly