Re: Still looking for the right OS

geek_stardust wrote:
It looks like, for me at least, that your research isn't well enought.
Any (yes ANY) distro can do all he things you are requesting for. Every
distro can run kde and icewm, any distro can read ntfs partitions, any
distro can handle your sound card,

I never got a distro with 2.6 kernel to run my IDE Soundblaster card that
worked fine with 2.0, 2.2, and 2.4 kernels. Maybe it was possible but I
finally just got a PCI Soundblaster instead and that worked fine.

But otherwise, I imagine any current distro would do anything you want.

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