• One clapped-out old laptop running Xubuntu Dapper Drake.

• One old but still serviceable P-3 running Kubuntu Dapper Drake

• One Athlon-64 running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn - I tried Beryl but I got bored  

Hmm, anyone care to tell me why my bold BBCodes in my sig gets me Andrew [beer] skeifr [/b]?  Works fine in other flavours of BBCode fora, works fine in body of post.  Apologies for OT.

Edit #57 OK, I got it.

Community server uses MSN-style emoticon codes rather than common BBCode. Can't say why though, we didn't write it

 I tried Beryl recently too on the Fawn but I found it too unstable and completely pointless, I'll save my CPU cycles for when I need them.

Ken Odlum:

I have been running Ubuntu on a spare machine for the best part of a year now and just wonder

Why do you have to go right round the houses just to install a software download or update, why not just a setup.exe?
Why do I have to mount drives etc (a second hard drive is a bit of a pain really)?

I have two PC's running XP and I can't even imagine Linux ever being a serious threat to Windows.
I can understand why Linux is so good for a server etc but a desktop machine no.
Maybe it's just that I have used Windows in one form or another for so long now but I do find Linux so unfriendly once I get past just using an application.

Just installed Ubuntu 7.04 and find it much easier to work with.

Just have to sort out why I can't capture mic input using a SB Live card and I am well away.  

I' new here.

Fedora Core 5/6/7

Mythtv Box running FC5

Home Mail/Web/Network server FC6

Laptop FC7

Steve 

As a Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 upgrade crippled a lot of the software I had installed I thought I would try the new Suse Linux 10.3 in it's place (last version of Suse I tried was 10.1).

So far I really love it.

David Nelson:

Well 7.10 isn't released yet so you can't expect perfection. I usually do my dist-upgrade about 2-3 days before launch as it beats the queue and isn't far off the final release barring minor version tweaks.

Hi David

The PC I use is only a spare so I don't depend on it for anything really so took the chance. Most of the software that stopped working was installed through Automatix and as that failed to work also I could not get it off.

I managed to get the second hard drive to mount at boot on Ubuntu but can't yet on Suse but the new click to install in Suse 10.3 works great.

I downloaded the DVD iso which was 4.5Gb and with a busy site took about 4 hours but was well worth it and I will stick with Suse for the foreseeable future.

Unless I wreck it again  

Automatix will be heavily dependent on the version of Ubuntu it's shipped for just by the nature of what it does. Some of it's functionality in Gutsy will be redundant but there will no doubt be a new version developed for it. I will have similar problems with the odd deb I've installed which will conflict with the new distribution so ill most likely need to do a full reinstall over the top of that Windows installation I never use anymore I can't say I've used Suse since the 5.2 version shipped on the PC Plus cover disk back in 1997 which got me into Linux in the first place, even back then though it was out of date! I might give the new version a spin at some point and see how it's doing.

ah memories...
 

I voted Redhat but that was a vote for CentOS which you should have included along side Fedora.

I also run Debian and a couple of specialist distro (ie. Firewalls)