[SATLUG] Video Drivers

[Geoff]

Jason Meridth wrote:
> 1. I disagree with Geoff:
>> If you want a gui'ed desktop system, with all the latest fancy bells,
>> whistles whizz-bang doo-dads and so forth... Go with Microsoft.
>
> For the last 12-15 friends that have complained about XP or Vista, I've
> migrated them to Ubuntu.  And there have only been 1 or 2 issues.  Easily
> resolved by me through the UbuntuForums.org.
>
> Don't get me wrong it's not all roses, but it's close.  AND IT'S FREE!

Ubuntu's a sore subject with me.  I have a few systems, that are running 
all the time here.  The 'try it here' Linux machine is a dual-PIII 
550MHz board with both processors in it, and 784M of Ram.  Ubuntu simply 
refused to play nice, in either trying to install it, or even boot the 
Live-CD version, on that machine.  My Winders box is a 1.8GHz (2.2AMD) 
w/1gig of RAM. I put that disk in trying to boot to the Live-CD version 
and -still- had issues with Ubuntu.  Knoppix, on the other hand... 
Knoppix is what I'm looking at the linux gui with (kde) now. 

I've played with kde and gnome, both, on SuSE Knoppix, Redhat 7 (way 
back when) and nothing has really changed...

> I use a MS laptop at home for Visual Studio and my C# programming.  I'm
> doing a little Mono development now, so hopefully I can migrate 100%.
> Microsoft technologies currently pay my bills, so I don't think I 
> qualify as
> a bigot.

I don't think that term was ever used, or even inferred. 

I, personally, don't -want- Vista, and I can't, for the life of me, 
figure out why these same mindless AOL'ers (for lack of a better 
defining term) would /stand in line/ to buy ANY product of Microsoft, 
the day it's released.  Has History taught them -nothing-?

BTW, what is the current 'pool' on how soon M$ issues a 'security patch' 
for Vista? (in the MS-Dos days, they called 'em 'version updates')