One of my Flickr contacts was accepted into the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
“I should remain humble and say that being accepted is all I could hope for, but please may I have the $25,000 prize and commission from the National Portrait Gallery?”
Fingers crossed on this one . . . .
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Uh oh. Not that I’m an Ubuntu fanbo1Z, but I’m slightly surprised to see Ubuntu not work for you. Where’d go wrong? X-Server?
I was really surprised at how craptacular this was. The X server was annoying, but the fact that the desktop version wouldn’t even boot a ThinkPad was hard to take. I didn’t even get to the X server. As I say, RedHat and Mandrake had this worked out in 1998 or earlier.
X is something I could probably have worked through, but I stopped worrying about it when I realized I had the server version installed. And it’s not like I have found an XF86 config that work on my FreeBSD system and the flat-panel display it came with. I don’t need it to display on localhost, so it’s no big deal. A laptop, however . . . .
What other distro can you recommend? My initial reason to try linux was for the perceived better hardware support. But, you know, wow. This really makes me think a little more about my reasoning there.
What other distro can you recommend?
Back to the basics? Debian (Try Sarge: I’m [still] extremely skeptic of Etch). Fedora? Before I try to install Sarge, I generally load Knoppix first to get an impression of the speed of the computer. I remember being wowed after installing a full-blown Debian Sarge (KDE 2) on several P-III computer.
I was actually working on the same computer as last week (2.x GHz Athlon, circa 2004) earlier today and downloaded a linux from scratch live CD to see what was what. It wasn’t so much impressive as unremarkable how it just did what I asked. It booted, got a network address, loaded a nice looking X desktop with the usual apps (Seamonkey, etc.). Back in XP, things were slightly better afterward, as if the Linux exercise had blown some dust out or something.
I think I’m going with FreeBSD 7 for my experiments going forward. I want to see zfs in action and familiarity is hard to argue against. I haven’t tried a Knoppix CD (I didn’t see one I could easily get when I looked today).
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