[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] LINUX / UBUNTU
From:       Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon () decoulon ! ch>
Date:       2005-02-28 21:55:06
Message-ID: 200502282253.31066.tcoulon () decoulon ! ch
[Download RAW message or body]

On Monday, 28 February 2005 21.21, vailima wrote:
> For what it's worth ...
>
> Just recd a copy of UBUNTU and it's not too bad. Came all the way from
> "downtown" Switzerland!
>
> Any of you have any experience with LINUX - UBUNTU?

I installed the PPC version on a PowerBook. It worked

>  Problem .1. Can't get UBUNTU to recognize the "touchpad" on the Dell
> Inspiron 5100 laptop

The touchpad on the Mac did work - as far as a touchpad "works", I find them 
unusable. 

>  Problem .2. Can't get the software to "activate" the printer. For want of
> a better term the software knows there  is a printer on the other end  of
> the USB port but nothing prints.

I should take a look, but I'd think Ubuntu uses cups and you should configure 
the printer in cups (localhost:631)

> Experience is showing so far that UBUNTU is lacking a lot of the "bells,
> whistles and chrome" that Mandrake offers but suspicision has it, this
> UBUNTU is a good OS based on LINUX. New LINUX users might want to get a
> copy of this OS.

Ubuntu is based on Debian and does not install KDE by default - actually it 
does not install it at all on a PPC

Thierry

-- 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde-linux mailing list.
Account management:  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]