Re: Linux still has a long way to go to even sniff mainstream!

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:15:16 -0800, es330td@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Ubuntu 7.1? Install went smoothly. Wait a second, how come my screen
choices only go as high as 800x600? XP is running at 1024x768 so I
*know* the card supports that resolution. I start doing a little
research and find out that I have the i810 chipset and out of the box
Linux won't support this.

Absolute bull***.

Hmm, why not? Windows does. I go find the
necessary files to add the driver to my OS. I open up nano and
edit .config files as instructed. No joy. Even after a reboot I
still can't go higher than 800x600. F*ck it.

You're clearly stupid.

A couple weeks later read about Fedora 8. I think "Maybe, being more
polished RH will support the i810." I go through the install. Nope,
I still can't go higher than 800x600. I open up google and search for
i810 Fedora and find the name of an RPM I'm supposed to install. I
get it and open it and it tells me a dependency failed. Ok, I go get
that rpm and that one tells me a dependency failed. I go get that
one, and I when I run it it tells me that a dependency failed. I go
try to find that one (libcrypto.so.7) and it doesn't exist!
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libcrypto.so.7
(Okay, I know where to get it but a search engine should be a little
smarter.)

Or YOU should be a little smarter. I guess you've never heard of a
package manager, eh?

I've been using Linux since Slackware .99b14

More bull***.

incompetent, I just wanted to see how ready for prime time various
distros of Linux are at this point. I realize I may be being a little
critical but my goal was to see how far I could get before I ran into
major hurdles. I am sad to say "not very long." "People" expect
their computers to just work. This clearly doesn't.

You're clueless, and stupid.

I have yet to go the BSD route on one. We'll see how these go.

LOL. Right. Bye, troll.


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"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

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