[hllug] Re: Freespire rocks.
- From: Lee Parmeter <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:09:52 -0500
Donguitar wrote:
> Lisa's 800 MHz P3 Debian box developed video troubles. The color looked
> washed out as if the screen were covered with translucent film. I tried one
> of my 16 MB video cards but there was no change nor could I find a jumper or
> anything in the bios that would turn off the onboard video.
>
> I didn't have another motherboard but I had an 800 MHz Duron CPU so I bought
> a new motherboard, assembled it (with the CPU) in my test box to assure
> myself that it was in working order (it was) then I just swapped it out in
> the computer. I didn't expect it to boot up but it did and it seemed to
> work fine but the internet connection, via the ethernet jack, seemed slow
> and a couple of program updates, via Synaptic, kept crashing.
>
> I decided to simply reinstall Debian. After four attempts without X ever
> getting started I dropped in my brand-new-spiffy Freespire CD and less than
> an hour later had a fully configured, darn nice looking desktop up and
> running. I doubt there's a Linux distro with a more user friendly install
> system than Freespire. The only questions it asked (I'll paraphrase these)
> were "Can I have the entire hard drive or must I share?", "Who are you?"
> and "Please choose a root password".
Freespire 2.0 will be based on Ubuntu 7.04.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7103672739.html
> Can't wait to try gNewSense...
I think a Linux Geek you have become!
> Don
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