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Subject: [Leica] OT: buying a Windows laptop for my son
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:48:53 -0700
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Ubuntu is good but why not get a Mac?
On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Mark Pope wrote:

> I use Ubuntu.  I have tried a couple of other distributions, mainly  
> Mandriva and two flavours of Suse Linux.  I didn't like the package  
> management under Suse and in the end, it drove me completely  
> crackers, so I changed to Ubuntu.
>
> I recommend a book called 'The Linux Cookbook' by Carla Schoeder,  
> published by O'Rielly.  Amongst many other things, it covers Samba  
> in quite a lot of detail, though for many I suspect a simple  
> anonymous file server is all that's needed for most people.
>
> As its title suggests, the book is organised as a series of recipes  
> and  is very easy to follow.
>
> I can supply some details on how to configure this if anyone is  
> interested.  Just PM me.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> Mark Pope,
> Swindon, Wilts
> UK
>
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> gallery=paw/2008
>
>
> R. Clayton McKee wrote:
>> Quoth the Jeff Moore :
>>> 2009-07-11-05:06:30 Charlie Meyer:
>>>> BTW, anyone have suggestions for which Linux flavor is best for
>>> AMD
>>>> based laptops?
>>> I've recently revisited the question of whose Linux packaging to
>>> install, Ubuntu has come back out on top.  I just installed 64- 
>>> bit Ubuntu
>>> 9.04 on a little server, and am pleased to report that 64-bit  
>>> Linux seems to
>>> be mainstream and no particular trouble now.
>> I have Ubuntu 9.04 "on a stick" on both my AMD64 HP laptop and my  
>> Atom netboook, for the rare occasions when I need Linux in the  
>> field for some reason, and it seems to work fine on both.  I  
>> didn't much care for the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the desktop had  
>> been changed and a bunch of things weren't the way I wanted them,  
>> but getting Ubuntu to install on a USB drive was easy....
>> My current PITA is getting my new machine, running 9.04-64 desktop  
>> (powering my scanners and, eventually, holding the photo library)  
>> to interface with my existing XP network.  Networking was never my  
>> long suit, and getting Samba configured is apparently a bit more  
>> complex than it looks.  I'll get it pummeled into submission one  
>> of these days, however.
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Replies: Reply from mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope) ([Leica] OT: buying a Windows laptop for my son)
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