[PLUG] why not Ubuntu 12 ?

[Roderick A. Anderson]

I've been a Redhat, Fedora, CentOS users since Redhat Linux 3.0.3 (the 
first distribution CD I purchased) so I understand your question.

I just installed 12.04 on a friends computer.  The biggest issue "I" ran 
into was the "new" interface.

The local user group North Idaho Linux User Group is mostly Ubuntu users 
with the odd (including me) user of Debian, Mint, Puppy, and CentOS so I 
got a couple of issues I had solved by them.

I recently acquired a old Dell Dimension 4400 so I was playing with a 
few distributions.  I found the two Fedora spins (XFCE, LXDE) I tried 
don't like the older video cards.  The wouldn't even install.  I'm 
reluctant to take the time to try the full Fedora install until I get to 
my eeePC 1000 netbook which is running a customized older Fedora.

Ubuntu 12.04 didn't play well with the SATA raid card (RAID 1) in that I 
couldn't figure out how to tell the installation process to use the RAID 
partition for HOME or to just ignore it.  Every time I tried to remove 
it during the hard drive setup the operation would puke.  I got tired of 
fiddling so gave up.  My take is Ubuntu works fine for the 
desktop/workstation that doesn't require too custom of an install.

On the up side for me is CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux 6 install fine. 
I know how to get the extras (closed source or from another repo)  I 
need working.

As far as printers go it will probably come down to whether PPDs are 
available for CUPS to use.


Good computing,
Rod
-- 
On 06/22/2012 11:14 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> I'm setting up a PC for someone who is pretty computer illiterate,
> almost all Windoz. The PC will be the focal point for selling online.
> Initially EBay and eventually a hosted 'shopping cart'
>
> Input will be a couple camera's, scanner, etc.
>
> Output will be a old LJ5M and over time a thermal label printer.
>
> My Linux background has been 99% Fedora. For me it does what I want,
> and over 50% of the time I live in a basic xterm world.
>
> I'm considering Ubuntu 12.04 for this PC and looking for comments
> issues etc. I'm not interested in religious or pie-in-the-sky, or
> similar thoughs. Instead things like issues with printing UPS shipping
> labels.
>
> -pete
>
> BTW I've been looking at Zen-Cart .. anyone had a bad experience with it ?
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