Linspire/Lindows
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Unless you paid for one of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings you don't have the newest version. Red Hat stopped their "enthusiast" distribution at version 9 and the version that would have been known as Red Hat 10 became Fedora Core 1. Fedora Core is now at version 3 and you can find it at http://fedora.redhat.com/. Fedora supports apt which is an great package management program that helps keep the system updated. Combined with synaptic it is very much like click and run except you don't pay a dime for anything
Linux and wireless networking is a PITA unless you are running a known supported chipset. I have a tutorial on my personal site (see sig) on how to setup the D-Link 650+ card but it involves compiling some software. Last I knew Lindows does not include the compiler tools for free so you're probably stuck. Feel free to ask questions in the fmlug.org forums...link below as well.
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See if you can get a terminal window and type /sbin/lspci. Then copy and paste the output here.
The results should look something like this
/sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0d.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 02)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
00:11.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 0649 Ultra ATA/100 PCI to ATA Host Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) -
You can also try this google search
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just to give you a heads up, another thing you can try is SuSE linux. i've had success with that version reconizing every single wireless card i've thrown at it. The current version of suse is offered by Novell, but you can download the previous version for free (9.1 personal). The 9.1 personal version basically has all the support of windows driverwise (it also has worked with every graphics card and printer i've also thrown at it) and you can get updates for it for free. You can also go with the Fedora route, but i've found Fedora to be buggy and crash-prone. And and if you have a 64bit AMD chip, things get more interesting, because the versions of linux out for the 64 bit chips are still taking thier baby steps (in other words they crash). So if i were you, i'd download the free version of SuSE, because i've found that to be the most stable and has the most support for devices.
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I've found most of all linux systems to be buggy and crash-prone.
Been around since 0.99 haha. -
Generally I agree with you Nick particularly on the GUI side of things. It seems to me that what was really good 4-5 years ago is still the best today where as the crappy stuff then is still crappy today. As a server though Linux excels and I've had extremely good luck with it there. Linux does have it's limitations...I found out almost a month ago that the uptime on a system rolls over at 500 days
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Just poking a little fun. I would definately say I have not done the most "average" stuff with my systems though, and sometimes what I expect out of a system just cannot be fulfilled by any flavor of linux.
However, I do have to admit, firing up a good java development machine is a hell of a lot easier using linux.
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