[FoRK] More iPhone analysis

[paul]

Stephen D. Williams said the following on 3/9/2008 8:42 PM:
> I spend and have spent far effort setting up and keeping Windows systems 
> running than Unix/Linux systems.  Sometimes you run into hiccups on a 
> Linux box, but it is unusual now days and it is usually outweighed by 
> how automatic everything else is.  I never have to go digging for 
> drivers for instance, outside of the commercial nvidia driver, and even 
> that is mostly automated now.  Or installing a full set of basic 
> applications.
> 
> There are and were problems with setting up video / monitor 
> configurations.  With modern hardware, which is all you are talking 
> about with a Mac as a comparison, it just works now, even with oddball 
> monitors.
> 
> Just because you know how to get through all of the steps of setting up 
> an XP system doesn't make it easier by comparison.
> 
> sdw
> 

The box crashed and rebooted at 640x480x16.  From the settings, it 
forgot what the video card was.  I reset that and voila! it booted to a 
black screen.  I'm not clever enough to fix that by connecting from 
another system and poking at config files.

But all in all, much much better than the copy of Suse Novell mailed me 
a year or so ago.

You're right.  I know I do a lot of Windows setup "automatically". 
Perhaps I'll get that way with Ubuntu or whatever someday, but I wanted 
to get the box up and running SlimServer and then take my time looking 
around and learning.  XP is good enough for now.

I can figure out file sharing again, I had it working once.  Maybe I can 
figure out why I have to log-in to look at another drive/partition in 
the box.  Or maybe it's a Ubuntu thing.  <shrug>

Someday.  Windows free....

(Uh, but what about my Dymo labelwriter and the Wacom tablet?  That's 
pretty much it.  Maybe I'm just whining.)

paul
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