On Sunday 18 February 2007 20:37, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Malcolm Purdy [02-18-07 20:55]:

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To those of you who answered/read my post of earlier today about problems with my Internet/wireless connection and keyboard—well the problem has been solved. I changed distributions—to PCLinuxOS. Thanks for your suggestions. A posting from another forum gave me the answer I needed. My printer problem has not been solved yet, but the wireless connection and keyboard have given me no problem whatsoever. Sorry openSUSE.

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have to wonder the real intensions..... -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535

Patrick: I certainly can understand his frustration after I spent a whole month trying to get my system working right. I have FC-6 on another box here and had the latest Kubuntu standing by, waiting for my fuse to blow. Luckily the problem got solved before that happened. Since then I have flown FC-6 for a while and it also is a nice distro. Both do what I want them to do. I can report that FC-6 gave me absolutely no problems at all, unlike the initial hal problem in Suse10.2, but now both run ok. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Kai Ponte [02-19-07 19:20]: [...]

...busted!

Oh, didn't you know, Patrick, that Microsoft has this deal with Novell where they're going to be supplying MS Office for Linux. :P

And you *know* this, HOW? or are you just spreading FUD? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

I don't see a big deal about people switching between distros. It really just depends on luck. I know people who swear by a distro until they get a new laptop and then suddenly another distro works better out of the box on that hardware. All of these distros put in hard work and I am grateful to all of them. On 2/19/07, Kai Ponte wrote:

On Monday 19 February 2007 17:45, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Kai Ponte [02-19-07 19:20]: [...]

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...busted!

Oh, didn't you know, Patrick, that Microsoft has this deal with Novell where they're going to be supplying MS Office for Linux. :P

And you *know* this, HOW?

or are you just spreading FUD?

Spreading humor. Notice the smiley. -- kai

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On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:10, Kai Ponte wrote: ...

I even have one super-mega-geek friend using KDE on BSD. :P ... Free, Open, Net, PC, <few more> -BSD ;-)

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On Wednesday 07 March 2007 03:47:24 am Damon Register wrote:

Kai Ponte wrote:

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I never - more than in jest - put down anyone using Linux. I have friends on Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, YellowDog and Linspire.

I must have the wrong friends. :-) All the people I know are MS slaves.

Well, I'm a MS slave at work, if that makes you feel better. In the groups of friends, though, I know many running *nix. They're out there!

There might be hope for my 6 year old son. I installed SuSE 10.2 on his PC and he loves playing with Rosegarden connected to an organ. Maybe I'll get his piano teacher interested too.

Hmm - rosegarden. Never heard of it. Installing as I write.

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I even have one super-mega-geek friend using KDE on BSD. :P

How about Solaris 10?

Know what? I only knew of one guy at my old work who had even downloaded Solaris 10. Kind of weird, too, because you'd think solaris would be more popular than any given Linux distro. My first real use of Unix came playing on SPARC boxes after I graduated college. Except for the poor UI (when compared to OS/2 and Win31) I thought they were interesting. -- k -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org