Subj : Re: Live CD
To   : ALAN ZISMAN
From : ROBERT FOWLER
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 12:29 am

-=> ALAN ZISMAN wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH <=-

 AZ> There's also the 'hardware support' issue-- though that (along with
 AZ> ease of installation) has vastly improved over the years I've been
 AZ> trying out Linux. Now most distributions I try auto-detect the display
 AZ> and sound card on my Dell laptop, which didn't use to be the case. WiFi
 AZ> cards remain an issue (as do things like Win-modems); the older WiFi
 AZ> cards I've tested almost all work, and are auto-detected. The newer
 AZ> models that I've tried tend to lack drivers, however.

 I've not seen support for anthing other than "B" class devices;
 most newer hardware is "G", which while backward compatible, leaves
 the user with older generation performance.
 
 AZ> And there are issues with software installation-- I've gotten very
 AZ> frustrated trying to install standard things like Firefox and
 AZ> OpenOffice upgrades, unless there's a version auto-downloaded by the
 AZ> particular distribution's own software.

 This was the main criticism in a recent article I read about Xandros.
 The author, who has been a Linux collumnist and tester for many years,
 noted that even he had problems installing software not included in
 Xandros networks.


 Regards,

 Robert Fowler

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