musichere 0 Report post Posted February 25, 2005 As you may have read in the other thread in this forum about my 'adventures' with Mandrake Linus 10.1. Well, it ended up with Quijibow telling me to try another distribution...Following that I also downloaded and installed debian, which I found was much easier to install than Mandrake, but still had the exact same booting problem which Mandrake had (I think it has something to do with Lilo)BUTMy friend told me about Fedora Core from Redhat, and I did some research into it and decided to have a go with it (then again what could possibly go wrong).ANDFor the first time out of the Linux distributions it went into a graphical installation, took my through step by step without throwing **** at me (sorry debian), and after 20 minutes it was up and running, and I was orgainising photos.So this is just my appreciation of the good work that Fedora, a non-profit and 100% free Linux distribution (or so I'm told).In conclusion, anyone who wants a simple, clean and beautifully executed installtion for super n00bs and lazy people alike, I really think Fedora Core is the way to go.Not only is the dual-boot loader working perfectly, it also lets me choose KDE or GNOME, and becuase it's GRUB, it's compattible with my specific computer (which Lilo/Mandrake wasn't.)Thanks everyone (especially quijibow) for telling me about Linux.All I need to do is to now configure my ADSL USB modem, which isn't supported by Linux kernal yet, but only with the project http://accessrunner.sourceforge.net/, which I'm not quite sure how to execute and use yet (I'm not sure about anything Linux wise), but I will look into that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jipman 0 Report post Posted February 26, 2005 I TOLD YOU SO ... FC3 is the most user friendly distro of them all Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2005 Glad to hear it.Fedora core is a great Distro, its the one I started out on. Not my favorite, but we all have our own tastes.The fact that your Modem isnt supported could be looked at as a mixed blessing.its a pain in the a$$ having o use winmodems (software modems) in linux, butonce you have it working, you will have learned some usefull skills. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
musichere 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2005 What's the cheapest ADSL modem you can get in the UK that is supported by Linux? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted February 27, 2005 Any modem that plugs into your ethernet network card is supported.and as far as i know, any usb modem that does not require firmware to be uploaded every time you boot should also work.I bet you are using Freeserve / Wanadoo broadband ?im using the broadband box that came with my NTLworld broadband.the main reason your usb modem isnt compatable out of the box is because of the firmware.the firmware is not open source, and therefore not budnled with linux.and the internet company's dont bundle linux installers for the firmware.however you can download the firmware, and use softwarefrom that site you mentioned to get that modem working.Also, you may want to consider nagging your ISP to include a linux installer onto their cd's.im sure they will ignore you, but enough people complain about the linux support, maybe they will take action.it wouldnt take more than a few hours for them to write a script that install the software from sourceforge onto your machine.Linux didnt used to have shockwave support, but after a petition, and an open source clone started, shockware quickl released a linux version. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
