On 4/3/06, Jon Moss jon.moss@cnonline.net wrote:
And that's what my pastor wants but we don't have the budget to buy a copy of Windows XP. He was even trying to get me to purchase XP Home Edition and I balked at that one.
Thanks for the advice - Jon
Sorry for replying directly dude.
Whatever you do, do not install XP Home volunteerily. Possibly one of the commercial Linux distros will have the level of ease of use a and multimedia you desire.
But to be quite frank, the only thing I have found lacking in an properly configured/setup Fedora Core is midi support. And maybe I just didn't give it much attention (had no real need for it) _ As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
I'd wait until Vista comes out. Then not install it on anything.
Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/3/06, Jon Moss jon.moss@cnonline.net wrote: And that's what my pastor wants but we don't have the budget to buy a copy of Windows XP. He was even trying to get me to purchase XP Home Edition and I balked at that one.
Thanks for the advice - Jon
Sorry for replying directly dude.
Whatever you do, do not install XP Home volunteerily. Possibly one of the commercial Linux distros will have the level of ease of use a and multimedia you desire.
But to be quite frank, the only thing I have found lacking in an properly configured/setup Fedora Core is midi support. And maybe I just didn't give it much attention (had no real need for it) _ As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:08 -0700, James Sissel wrote:
But to be quite frank, the only thing I have found lacking in an properly configured/setup Fedora Core is midi support. And maybe I just didn't give it much attention (had no real need for it)
I gave Fedora Core 5 (4.92) a try a few weeks ago. As far as I could tell, it was nothing more than a Gnome desktop with some themes. IMO, the heart of a Linux distro is the package manager and I could scarcely believe what Fedora has passing as a package manager/update system these days. But maybe the GUI hid the underlying features from me. How are you supposed to get updates AND resolved dependency conflicts at the same time? Is there no interface for this? It seems like, if you going to have to be installing some 20-odd third-party RPM's to get decent codec and Java support, you're going to have to have the ability to resolve conflicts somehow.
Also, the installer was amazingly simple ... as in, having little to no options for anything. But again, maybe I missed an "advanced" mode?
--- James Sissel jimsissel@yahoo.com wrote:
I'd wait until Vista comes out. Then not install it on anything.
Not that you'll be able to *use* it on anything.
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