Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu.

Day Brown wrote:

The screen is attractive, but it wouldnt let me shift the panel to the
side, keeping tool bars on the top and bottom. I have a kinda wide
screen, and this makes me scroll up more.

I've been running Xandros, but had problems trying to install a torrent,
and since Ubuntu was also a debian distro, thot it mite work. But
whereas Xandros immediately found my PANTECH UM150 wireless modem and
ran it, which gets me here, Ubuntu didnt even see it, much less run it.

Then, there's the logon screen, which makes some sense for a platform
that others have access to. But this pc sits in my bedroom, and the
necessity to logon typing my username and password is an annoyance.

If someone accesses this desktop, I dont have a security problem, I have
a family problem. the network hackers who put Ubuntu together dont seem
to realize some of us dont have security risks.

Perhaps my needs are a bit unusual. I'm at the end of the grid in the
Ozarks, but there's an Alltel transponder on a mountain top with clear
line of site to my place so I can get broadband with their wireless
modem. I rather thot all the laptops with wireless modems would make up
a user base distros would want to include.

Is there another distro that will run the modem as well as give me a
torrent, automatically mount and give me full access to whatever other
drives are in the pc and when booted go straight to my desktop?



<<<<<< TROLL MODE ON
I think it's time for you to return to window$... or read a little bit about
computer hardware and learn to google around.

It seems that you never heard about automatic logging in Unix, nor file
right management. But it's not too late to learn.
TROLL MODE OFF

Too bad that it's not possible to pack a hole distro on only one CD.
Installing K/X/Ubuntu 8.04 from a CD is as installing Debian from the 5
floppies.

As you use Xandros sucessfully, you should keep it or try to install a
multiple CD/DVD distro such as MDV 2008.1 or OpenSuSE 11.0. The Debian DVD
should do it right too...

Ciao @+
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