[Sheflug] On behalf of Richard

[Sean Liddall <nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz>]

Richard wrote:
> 
> Richard
> 
> Sean Liddall wrote:
> 
> > > Personally, I didn't find it a hard install at all, even though I was
> > > installing it on a system I didn't know anything about, and it's from a
> > > crap vendor (HP)...  then again, I'm used to editing BSD disklabels with
> > > ed: vi is for girls ;-)
> 
> I think Debian is a brilliant distribution.  Reason I didn't use it
> with my laptop was because Owen le Blanc over at Manchester had
> enormous problems with PCMCIA drivers.  When I mentioned IRDA he did a
> sort of "oh my god, the world's coming to an end" in front of me.  So,
> I tried SuSE 6.4 with my second user Compaq Armada.  Works very well.
> The Red Hat people I've spoken to go on about the fact that PCMCIA
> drivers have never worked.  That's in writing and not verbal.
> 
> I've got some Debian 2.2 CDs next to me so I'm hoping to install them
> into a machine that's doing nothing soon.
> 
> Oh yes, Fermilab say that Red Hat 7.0 will be released on Monday.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Richard
> Sheffield UK

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK


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