Re: Vista to Unix

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:56:36 -0600, Ignoramus6682 wrote:

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

I use Ubuntu, mostly, myself (also a little Gentoo and Elive), but read
the post:

"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."

Evidently Ubuntu does not work well for him and he wants to try something
else.
.

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