The machine is 600Mhz, PII or PIII, Intel anyway. I had to install Debian 3.1r3. I wanted to install Ubuntu 6.06 on the machine, but Ubuntu refused to get past the installer screen and crashed a lot, dropping me out of XWindows into a useless user prompt. I tried the Ubuntu Alternate installer CD and that crashed a lot too. I never got Dapper Drake to install on that machine.
I'm really wondering about Ubuntu. I was told Ubuntu was created primarily to give third world countries an easy-to-setup OS other than Windows, but if the *installer* crashes on the type of computer likely to be donated to third world countries, how will this goal be fulfilled?
Oh, I did link up to the testing and unstable packages so I could install OpenOffice.org 2.0. This was the original reason I wanted to install Dapper Drake, since 6.06 comes with OpenOffice.org 2.0. The machine has a TV card on it too (cheap little bttv), I was thinking of dragging along a DVD player to demonstrate TV in Linux.
I don't think that two Debian machines would be a problem. Its not like we're attending a fancy computer party and it would be embarassing to find out someone else is wearing the same distro.
--- crash3m [email protected] wrote:
I'm planning on dragging a couple in as well, which distro will yours have? I will be sure to install a distro other than yours.
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