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peterMar 2nd 2008 4:55AM
One great way to try out a bunch of live cds without installing them is the VMware player and the live cd appliance. I use that all the time and it works great and it is an easy way to see which flavor best suites your needs without rebooting your computer.
(Unverified)May 13th 2008 2:53PM
I have tried several of the Linux distros; Mandrake, then Mandriva, Linspire, and now Kubuntu (Ubuntu w/ KDE) and I always ended up with the same result:
The wireless card on my Dell E1705 laptop is not recognized by any distro I have tried so far.
Of course, without an internet connection, you cannot easily obtain updates or packages.
It's no big deal, really. All a user needs to do is look through hundreds of Linux FAQs and Forums, discover NDISwrapper, learn the console commands (as a superuser!) to banish the native Broadcom chip drivers from a module and then apply NDISWrapper to the Windows .inf file (which you hopefully copied to your Home directory or an external USB drive that is recognized by your distro) and presto! your wireless card comes to life 40% of the time.
Piece of cake.
Really, folks, until Linux is capable if recognizing common hardware devices installed on computers during the stone age, it will continue to be an amusing playtoy to serious computer users.
When Linux gets serious and ubiquitous about hardware support, (and until vendors supply reliable Linux drivers), then I will get serious about using Linux as my primary OS.
Enough said.
(Unverified)May 13th 2008 3:05PM
I also meant to say that the Sun xVM Virtual Box is the best VM I have used in Windows XP so far, but a VM running Linux will not reveal hardware issues because the VM runs its own hardware layer.
I did not find out that Kubuntu 8.04 would not recognize my laptop's wireless card until I installed it on my machine.