[sf-lug] Why PcLinuxOS and Ubuntu failed to work on Emmanuel's laptop

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 17:23 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Matt Price wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:27 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> >> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> >>
> >>> We did.  We wrote it all down on a sheet of paper so that he wouldn't 
> >>> get confused by all the details either.  Asheesh wrote down some other 
> >>> stuff on the paper on the way out of the cafe, but I didn't catch what 
> >>> he put on there...
> >>
> >> I wrote that he should look for Rick Moen's installfest as another 
> >> group of experts, in case he needed some advice/help while I, at least, 
> >> am away for Christmas.
> >>
> >> By the way, I was pretty unhappy with what I saw of PC Linux OS, if 
> >> that's the distro that was on there before, and wouldn't really 
> >> recommend it to anyone.  The package quality was *rather* poor, even 
> >> for RPM distro standards.
> >>
> > how did you evaluate the package quality?  were there dependency 
> > problems, or lousy desktop integration?
> 
> Lousy desktop integration, plus the daemon I installed (NetworkManager) 
> didn't start itself at package install time, plus there was no 
> documentation on the system-specific way to use it in either 
> /usr/share/doc/networkmanager/ or /usr/share/doc/knetworkmanager/ .
> 
well, those are pretty convincing!

matt


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