I first started using Linux seriously in March 2007, I started with Freespire then Ubuntu and
with Knoppix and then landed in Sidux, my current favorite is Kanotix because of its stability.
However a new OS just hit the market and it is using Ubuntu's 7.10 Gusty's kernel, i downloaded
it and am now trying it, so far I really like what I see, enlightenment Desktop environment, very
nice!
I use google's gmail for my email client, sure saves on keeping track of my email, highly recommend this for new users.
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Since my last posting, gOS has a updated version called Rocket 2.0 it is nice, I installed it on my new Tthinkpad laptop in a VirtualBox of 8gigs, I have decided that it was nicer to just use a VM than to actually install it to my hard drive, I don't use much for graphics so the standard vesa driver is fine. My host system is Kanotix, I am using the latest version of thorhammer RC7, I really like the way Kano keeps his distro as a leading edge but yet one that has proven applications on it and of course he makes using ATI drivers very easy with his scripts.
I am currently using VirtualBox 1.5.4 and VMplayer 2.0 with vmax templates.
I have tried using VirtualBox 1.5.6 with vista on my Lenovo R61e but it crashes, locks up and I have to power down to reset, trying Vmware's server 1.02 I am able to run the same .iso of kanotix, looks like vmware for vista is the way to go if your using vista as the host.
People who have tried linux and found that the sound system didn't
work or was so flaky they couldnt depend on it and the graphic cards
needed
so much fiddling with that they were spending more time trying to get
to the desktop than they were reading their mail are going to drop
linux
cold, it is too bad but that is the sad truth and this recent release
of Ubuntu has sealed that fate as it has just too many bugs to ever
make a decent operating system.
I bet you didnt think you would hear me say that hahaha but its the
truth, far too many people who were not happy with vista and wanted
something
that would just work have been frustrated with the last release Jaunty
and now this latest to be released joke of a system Karmic, they just
didnt seem to get it, while people liked new features their not
working killed any enthusiasim for them, they introduced Pulse Audio
in Jaunty and it was a
absolute disaster, it made sound systems that were terribly
un-reliable into something that just didnt work at all and then they
made it so your system didnt work if you tried to uninstall it, what
kind of madness is that? well if windows7 is at least as good as
winxp Linux is done for.
The only hope for linux was virtualbox but i see now that Sun has been
losing its ass and is laying off thousands of workers, it will
certainly be the end
of that package for linux, the only thing that could save it would be
if Mark Shuttleworth bought it and made it the backbone for Ubuntu,
they will certainly have to get rid of pulse audio and alsa is in such
a mess i dont know if OSS can redeem it, I read that at one point
when the soundblaster 16 was the sound card to have with linux that
sound actually worked but that only lasted for a short time and they
moved on to software designed sound cards and the thing is a total
mess now, I can see Ballmer rolling over and laughing and saying linux
is only for the walking dead and he is right.
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Linux has had so many problems with sound, video and printing that it is just too frustrating for me to continue its use as my primary OS, I have enjoyed using it to read my email and google news but Windows 7 will do that and more so it will move ahead of linux in my use of my computers if win7 proves to be really successfull.
Time goes by fast, linux continues to suffer with its x system and sound issues however Kanotix remains stable, linux master Kano keeps it running very stable and I see users who tried other distros return because of that.
I just tested Mandriva 2010 and have to say that so far its a big dis-appointment, it failed to excite me right out of the box with their stupid "first-time use" questionaire that locks up and keeps you from exiting. I found an exit by going to a VT and removing the offending program in /home/ftw once that was removed, I rebooted and finally got to a usable desktop. Now this is something that most newbies would not know or even glean enough clues from their wiki on how to exit, perhaps somewhere in the translation it was lost.
The straw breaker was when i tried to compile a new alsa driver, when i did the make install the /boot/grub/menu.lst was changed so that I could not boot back to the Desktop it kept freezeing at the login maybe something with udev but
I was able to use the backup kernel and restored usabilty with installing a new Kernel, menu.lst was re-written by that action and it created a workable selection.
That is a lot of un-friendly-ness for most people and the welcome wagon is just broke with Mandriva.
I am finally free of Hugesnet satelite service and back to useing a local wireless broadband and hopefully it will last forever. The issue I experienced with google being blocked seems to have something to do with my router and the 7000S satelite modems builtin router, this arrangement gives what is called a double NAT and while it worked for nearly 1.5 years it started in late 2009 to give me trouble. using the satelite without the router did not produce these symptoms which tells me that inter-action between the two caused this effect. I had even tried a second router with dd-wrt firmware installed in the wrt54g router it too suffered the same problems.
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