Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu.

Ken wrote:
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 have a wide screen, too. Mandriva 2007 lets me put the bar on either side,
but the bar contents are then pushed together too closely, so I leave the
bar atop.
I didnt realize that kbuntu, with kde rather than gnome, is what I
should've tried. I'm not that familiar with how gnome works.

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.

Here's a page from a fellow who wrote that he got it working:
http://www.montanamenagerie.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=903
I ordered a Ubuntu install CD cause I'd read of a similar setup for
it, but when I tried doing it in terminal, nothing I could tell happened.
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.

Mandriva has a set of administration utilities grouped in a Mandriva Control
Center. There's one for setting log-on preferences.
I just dont understand, why, with all the zillions of home single user
desktops, its not SOP during the install to ask if that's what I want.

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.

It's my impression that wireless connectivity has been receiving more
attention in the last couple of Linux years, but seamless "boot the DVD,
connect to the world" performance may not yet be ubiquitously available.
Though I don't have your hardware to say for sure, Mandriva seems to have
pretty good hardware detection and wireless setup capabilities.
I have Mandriva 2005; but havta get a newer copy...
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?

Well, off-the-platter instant gratification may not be everywhere yet, but I
suspect that most general purpose Linux distributions could be configured
to satisfy your request. You may wish to check out the Linux From Scratch
distribution, the point of which is to allow you to start from a minimum of
source files and build your own customized distribution. This is not for
beginners or the faint of heart, but it can result in you having a unique
operating system that meets your preferences as closely as you desire.
Yeah, been there too. Again, I dont understand, why with so many using the X86, stuff hasta be compiled rather than just downloaded already to
go on a PC.
.

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