[ale] Ubuntu Linux ROCKS! (The Saga of Miss W)

[mute wonder]

Due to Ubuntu's reputation for hardware compatibility, I try it or
derivatives on a 2006-ish Gateway laptop.  It has modest specs by
today's standards, but the built-in wifi card is a pain in the ass
Realtek RTL8187 that just works better on Windows.  Various Linux
distro's have a range of successes with that wifi, but Ubuntu has the
most consistent success, even if it doesn't last.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:50 AM, wylde bill <durtybill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 11:52 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>> Sooo.... Ubuntu works on old equipment.  That's old news.   It should
>> work better, out of the box, with new hardware (which is what college
>> kids are more likely to try it on).
>
> It has done so consistently for me to date.  I'm running it on a
> dual-core AMD64 machine (with a relatively new nforce chipset onboard,
> an nvidia epci Gforce 7x installed, and with a Creative Labs audigy
> soundcard) on the machine I'm typing this on.  All my other installs for
> myself and others have been on brand new machines, both laptops,
> netbooks, and desktops with equally satisfying results.
>
>
> --
> Would you want CONGRESS directing the LINUX collective?
>
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