OK. I'm tired of showing up at the nblug meetings and sitting quietly
and enjoying the show. Maybe I can expose myself a bit and get more
involved using this venue. Or maybe this is the wrong place for that
and I'll get whacked. Whatever. Is there a repository somewhere of
previous posts to this list so that a I can review what has been hashed
over previously and not repeat all that?<br>
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Just let me remark that I have a dual P3 machine which a friend and I
put together a few years ago for editing video. It had to be fast and
have fast scsi drives in order to do that job. It has 256 Meg of ram.
It was a killer machine in its day. I have of course upgraded to a P4
and WXP to run Premiere and Photoshop. But I don't want to surf the web
with Microsoft's crappy unsecure OS, so I use Linux on the P3. I've
been running Ubuntu, which seemed like a reasonable release (Hoary).
About a week or so ago I went to update my system and wound up with
Breezy. Breezy almost killed my system. What was a reasonably brisk
machine now is a slow slug. C'mon!! What the F is going on here? All I
do is a little typing, a spreadsheet now and then and surf a bit. What
is the advantage of the new and bloated OS? When Unix was invented did
they have machines with 256 megabytes of ram? I don't think so...<br>
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My Commodore 64 almost worked better. So I'm exploring Morphix which I learned about from Kyle Rankin's lovely book, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Knoppix Hacks</span>.
I'm looking for a simple system which will let me type and see what I'm
typing. At times using Badger I'm looking at a dead screen while I type
into the buffer, trying to not make any mistakes. Got to be a better
way. End of rant.<br>
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Question - is there a place to check on what hardware works best with
Linux? I'd like to get a dvd burner which is fast and dependable with
Linux. It seems to me that if a hardware manufacturer or VAR provided
great open source drivers for their equipment they would have a usable
niche that the competition is avoiding. This has no doubt already been
discussed to death.<br>
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Art<br>