You will be mailed five official Ubuntu CDs for free, or more if you simply request it. I tried Ubuntu and it never worked for my hardware, but you just need to keep trying different distros until one works and works really well for your setup.
pclinuxos and freebsd worked really well for hardware detection. I was happy, then tried openSuSE 10.2 and it blew my socks off! openSuSE is an awesome OS.
This other OS has been available for download at pcbsd.org for a while now and works great. Oh yeah, IT IS COMPLETELY FREE. So... why should I care that you can pay, then download a copy of Windows Vista? If you are a member of the MSDN network fine, but I'm not, and I have no intention of ever using Windows again unless I am somehow forced to by the US government.
If that were to happen, then I would probably commit suicide after screaming: "LIVE FREE OR DIE!"
Is only the greatest OS ever made!!! Easier to install and add applications than Windows or Linux; there are tons of free software packages that have there own GUI installer for download on their site. If I want something not there, then I simply have to compile from source like in Linux. More people should get behind PC-BSD, and I think they are. What doomed BSD early on is that it was extremely hard to install. PC-BSD remedies this, I installed it on my computer in about four mouse clicks, everything on my system auto-detected and worked without any input from me.
I know that is what the problem is, but the guy could be spending his time working on these particular problems instead of trying to convert people. I want to be converted, but I spent money on hardware that Ubuntu users RECOMMENDED, and it does not work, because the company decided to switch chips. I'm not going to buy some other wireless card just so I can use an open source operating system.
I feel the same way. Why do you not use that 30 minutes you spend with each customer and devote it to trying to get my Linksys WMP54G wireless card to work with Ubuntu? The latest Ubuntu came with support for the rt2500 chipset, but my chipset is rt61. I tried forever to make the switch, but could not, because my hardware is not supported. Before you go trying to get people to switch, you need to make sure that Linux has the wide ranging support for hardware that Windows does. Kind of a daunting task I know, since the majority of hardware out there has software devoted particularly to Windows. I picked up the wireless card, because it was recommended in the Ubuntu forums, but the post never mentioned anything about two different chipsets.
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This is one of the most gross April Fool's jokes ever; like a person is really going to take poops with this wire coming out of their toilet.
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You will be mailed five official Ubuntu CDs for free, or more if you simply request it. I tried Ubuntu and it never worked for my hardware, but you just need to keep trying different distros until one works and works really well for your setup.
pclinuxos and freebsd worked really well for hardware detection. I was happy, then tried openSuSE 10.2 and it blew my socks off! openSuSE is an awesome OS.
This other OS has been available for download at pcbsd.org for a while now and works great. Oh yeah, IT IS COMPLETELY FREE. So... why should I care that you can pay, then download a copy of Windows Vista? If you are a member of the MSDN network fine, but I'm not, and I have no intention of ever using Windows again unless I am somehow forced to by the US government. If that were to happen, then I would probably commit suicide after screaming: "LIVE FREE OR DIE!"
Is only the greatest OS ever made!!! Easier to install and add applications than Windows or Linux; there are tons of free software packages that have there own GUI installer for download on their site. If I want something not there, then I simply have to compile from source like in Linux. More people should get behind PC-BSD, and I think they are. What doomed BSD early on is that it was extremely hard to install. PC-BSD remedies this, I installed it on my computer in about four mouse clicks, everything on my system auto-detected and worked without any input from me.
I know that is what the problem is, but the guy could be spending his time working on these particular problems instead of trying to convert people. I want to be converted, but I spent money on hardware that Ubuntu users RECOMMENDED, and it does not work, because the company decided to switch chips. I'm not going to buy some other wireless card just so I can use an open source operating system.
I feel the same way. Why do you not use that 30 minutes you spend with each customer and devote it to trying to get my Linksys WMP54G wireless card to work with Ubuntu? The latest Ubuntu came with support for the rt2500 chipset, but my chipset is rt61. I tried forever to make the switch, but could not, because my hardware is not supported. Before you go trying to get people to switch, you need to make sure that Linux has the wide ranging support for hardware that Windows does. Kind of a daunting task I know, since the majority of hardware out there has software devoted particularly to Windows. I picked up the wireless card, because it was recommended in the Ubuntu forums, but the post never mentioned anything about two different chipsets.