Re: Vista to Unix

On 2008-02-28, ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:00:26 -0800, Jeffrey Drake wrote:

I am considering a move from Vista to a Unix-variant on my laptop. I
have been quite happy with my vista install with a few nagging
exceptions. It is those exceptions that cause me to look elsewhere.

I have used Ubuntu (7.10) on this laptop before, and I have been quite
displeased about its shoddy wireless networking and ACPI sleep support.
It was often that the wireless networking would simply NOT work after
waking up. Also, sometimes the sleep function would essentially freeze
the machine before it even went to sleep.

What I am looking for is something to solve those problems primarily. I
am willing to consider FreeBSD 7, Slackware, or even Fedora if it is
reasonably better than Ubuntu in this regard.

I do not care for NetworkManager, as the version included with 7.10
seemed to be an attempt to produce something that Windows does fairly
well, but make it actually suck.

My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5570, it uses Intel's video and wireless, I
believe it is a 945 based chipset, but I am not 100% sure on this.

Any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.

With Regards,
Jeffrey Drake.

FWIW - I've found Fedora to be a little 'iffy' if you don't know what the
hell you're doing with the repositories. I added the ones I thought would
be good to have and now X won't start - I've no idea how to rectify - and
I've been using Linux exclusively for about five years! Suggest you might
want to try Mandriva instead - seems to be more robust in that regard.

I suggest Ubuntu very strongly. I have been a Fedora user for YEARS
and I am switching everything to Ubuntu;

i
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