From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid
On Thu, 15 May 2014, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article
, BobbieSellers wrote:
>It was 5 years old and I doubt I could have rented a notebook
>so cheaply as my price with memory update was <500 USD in 2009.
Know what you mean there - but shopping around, I've been able to find
laptops under $350. It's not the "only" computer in the house, so I
don't especially need the highest horse-power with lots of shiny.
>I tried 3 various distributions that have some UEFI compatibility but
>Mageia 4 failed, same with Fedora 20 and Knoppix 7.3. I tried Open
>Mandriva but it did not work either,
Specific problems? One of the clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
might be a better choice, but that's the word - "choice". YMMV
>Finally late afternoon I tried Kubuntu 14.04 LTS and it worked. Have
>rebooted several times and it seems to work but I don't like the sudo
>system of doing things.
'sudo -c passwd' and set root's password.
Problem I have/had with *buntu is the silly a.o.l.ubuntu newsgroup.
It's active, but pretty much saturated with trolls and other noise.
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
offered 35030 26809 24697 25813 27689 11440
killed 14803 15361 17698 19881 20499 9094
percentage 42.25 57.30 71.66 77.02 74.03 79.49
(2014 figures to 1700 UTC 5/16/2014). It does help if you have a news
reader with a good scoring/killfile capability. Even so, there's not
that much useful information in the newsgroup.
> Got to go to bed.
Yeah, I can see that - you fumble-fingered the newsgroup name in the
"Followup-To:" header ;-)
Old guy
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