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Tailslide -> Linux advice please! (12/12/2006 11:56:06)

I've had enough of my PC laptop refusing to connect to the internet and when it does it only stays up for about 2 minutes before going offline and taking the rest of my network with it.

The mac ibook never does this. Always connects first time, never drops offline. My desktop PC never does this.

So I've decided that once I've got my standalone IE6 setup on my desktop PC I'll be switching the laptop over to linux.

So is Ubuntu still the version to go for? What's the difference between the different versions of Linux?

Any advice gratefully accepted.



jaybee -> RE: Linux advice please! (12/12/2006 12:51:22)

Ooooh heck, Bobby the Gnu is the best one to talk to about this but he's not around much these days. Try emailing him, he's pretty good with replies if he's at his machine.

I've got a half install of Red Hat. There's a reason it's only half. [:D]



d a v e -> RE: Linux advice please! (12/12/2006 12:57:58)

i like ubuntu a lot - looks pretty in it's latest incarnation. mepis is a bit ugly for me but otherwise ok. you can download an iso of the live cd for ubuntu (and mepis) for example, burn onto a rw-cd (open the image in your cd burning software... ) and run it just from there to try. you can also install it from the same cd too! :)



Tailslide -> RE: Linux advice please! (12/12/2006 13:42:36)

Thanks chaps - useful stuff! I've also taken Jaybee's advice and emailed the Great "B" to seek his guidance.



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Linux advice please! (12/12/2006 17:29:45)

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The mac ibook never does this.

- Your ibook is also not using the same NIC that your laptop is, right? That means that the problem could be hardware, just as much as it could be software.

The only things you have ruled out are your router, modem, and ISP.

If you are not already 100% on switching over, then you might want to see if your NIC is bad on your laptop. If you have bad hardware, switching to Linux won't help one bit.

Also, why do you think you will benefit from Linux? From the home user or web developer standpoint, there's nothing you can do with Linux that you can't do on windows, but there's plenty you can do on windows that you can't do on Linux.



Tailslide -> RE: Linux advice please! (12/13/2006 2:34:02)

You could be right about the NIC Bobby - but bearing in mind that I've tried begging and pleading with the network card along with the more conventional updating drivers, then rolling drivers back, using Windows setup, using the manufacturers setup. I won't bore you with the rest but there's a long list of stuff I've tried.

In the end, there's no real benefit for me to keep the laptop Windows. I have a windows machine which I do most of my work on and have my development software on. I have a mac which is used for browsing the internet for fun and for iTunes. So having another PC laptop isn't a bonus for me but having a Linux setup will help me for site testing. In the end I may well end up with a Linux laptop with unreliable NIC as opposed to a Windows laptop with an unreliable NIC but I won't be worse off than I am now.



BobbyDouglas -> RE: Linux advice please! (12/13/2006 3:39:14)

I have a Linux build on a CD that I just pop into my laptop- it allows me to do things like browse the net and test network security (which is really cool).

That should let you keep your windows laptop, without having to install/configure any additional software. When you want to use Linux, you boot from the CD, when you want to use windows, you boot normally. It won't save or cache anything too, so every time you boot into Linux, it will be like a fresh computer :)

It sounds like you have your mind set on Linux anyways, so if that is the route you want to take, check out Fedora and Ubuntu. From what you describe you plan to do, and your knowledge of Windows, Fedora might be a better option.



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