[Tfug] Need help finding a distro

[Marco Savo]

Did you try xubuntu? works fine for my  mini-itx with via processor 800 MHz.
Now I'm trying 9.10 beta.
Anyone tried opensuse? should be even better than fedora.
here a list of major distributions:
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Paul Scott <waterhorse at ultrasw.com> wrote:

> earljviolet at deserthowler.com wrote:
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> Are you back?
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>> I work at World Care checking out III computers for the store.  We sold
>> some computers with Ubuntu 7.10 installed.  Things were working fine.  The
>> 7.10 repositories are now closed.
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>> I went to Ubuntu 8.04 because it is LTS.  It worked great.  I set up a few
>> with a Cisco Wireless card and they worked fine too.  These machines are
>> PIII 800+ with 385 MB memory.
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>> In going to 8.04 we encountered a problem.  Plugging a different monitor
>> brings the video down.  Not just to 800x600 but to totally unusable.  OK,
>> switch to a console and run 'sudo dpkg -reconfigure -phigh xserver -xorg';
>> that always works.
>>
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> Not if 8.04 is using Hal which pretty well doesn't use xorg.conf.  When Hal
> is running well switching monitors would only need restarting X
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> Paul Scott
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