Posts by beaviskob1

Quote: Originally Posted by Sam Ontario Pls excuse my ignorant, I have been a PC user since the DOS and the IBM XT era. My applications on PCs mainly involved in internet surfing, e-mailing, word processing,...

ABF is correct Unbuntu for Gnome PCLinuxOS for KDE. By far PCLinuxOS is my favorite 32 bit distro they have ati, nividia, and vesa versions. Kanotix has imho the best off the shelf 64-bit distro. I like Slack also but a little more...

Quote: Originally Posted by abf can't stand paid distros. gave Linspire a spin...slow...pain to get working right, won't even install on my desktop! Xandros --- worst excuse for a Debian distro i've ever...

For beginers who want a pain free transition a pay distro would be easier . But not all pay distros and then some are slooow. So here goes my choices. Pay Libranet ( out of production ) , Linspire 5 ( It rocks on my equiptment ) ,...

I need to chime in here , I have tried many distros like "abf" All are not perfect on my my m6811. Personally I liked Slack the best. Gentoo too steep learning curve. Fedora not good. Suse lots of included software but thats...

PcLinuxOS has a good support forum but I guess I was too LAZY to look for the macro's answer and other issues but I'll take a look.

abf: If you get the hardware buttons up let me know how . I'm not sure how myself (guess I should read up). For resolution change I manually edit xorg.conf as my M6811 does only 1280x800 I replace 1024x768 under 24 bit. Powermanagement ...

ABF: I too have tried many distro's. I do like kde distro's myself, but do me a favor, PcLinuxOnline .92. It comes as installible kde based livecd. Texstar has made a GREAT flexible distro(mandriva based). I have a M6811 and only had...

Quote: Originally Posted by Thunder_PC What about those of us without problems? Thunder : Just like an election here in the U.S. "Every vote counts!" when they want it to! I think once again...

Well need to reply since my last post, Major problem!!!!!!! OsX86 doesn't go more than 1024x768 on my M6811 and via rhine not suppoted ethier! (sarcasm) Still running fine and kickin butt here even after a few roadtrips. Only hope Apple...