Re: Took the linux plunge... which news reader?

On Aug 13, 9:29 am, Fred Bartoli <mynamewithAdotinbetw...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
I just got for a new PC and before committing suicide with M$ I wanted to
take that opportunity to try, hem, some alt OS. Went for ubuntu and after
one hour briefing from a friend (I didn't speak *nix at all) I was much
impressed by the easiness of installation. Less than 2 days later I have
my machine OK with all the needed software running on it, on a well
organized and faster machine (build almost the same for the wife, but with
XP) all that starting from zero knowledge on my side. I probably won't
switch back to .$. Ever.

Now to the question.
Which newsreader do you, you *nix users, use? After trying some
unsatisfying ones, I found PAN, from which I'm posting right now, that I
find pretty good, but I wonider if there are other good ones to try before
I make the final choice.

--
Thanks,
Fred.

You can use thunderbrd for usenet.

I'm not impressed with Ubuntu. In general, the bigger the
distribution, the less compilation you have to do yourself. Ubuntu is
rather light. It also won't load on my amd 64 machine.

Fry's just finished dumping their 300G drives ($50 off, i.e. $59 for
300G), so I put one in my AMD64 box just to try out some other linux
distributions. Amazingly, other than suse, not one installed without
errors. Many booted, but could start xwindows. [Tested were ubuntu,
debian(lenny and edge) and freebsd, Solaris 10, now free from Sun,
kind of installed. I'm not sure all was well with it, but I think I
could get it bug free. Note that only Solaris and Suse found my Nvidia
ethernet port.

I think if you could get it to install, debian would be a good
distribution. It has a full DVD worth of binaries. Compilation is a
pain. Sometimes there are other dependent programs that need to be
installed first, so it can get complicated.

At the moment, the only distribution that "sees" my software RAID is
Suse 10.2.

Granted, I have complicated things going with an AMD64. Intel installs
should be better tested.

.

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