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| 09:39.37 | gr0undhog | moin :) |
| 09:40.16 | AndyMillar | mornin |
| 09:41.51 | gr0undhog | Hi AndyMillar - I'm here under yet another name as my ancient fingers seem to mess with password typing - but yup, back and pleased. |
| 09:44.57 | gr0undhog | However, in this latest interval I've become much less enamoured of Ubuntu and reverted to dear ole Debian. But can I get it to connect wirelessly? Nah. I soon realised this and plugged the ethernet cable back in and yere oi be! |
| 09:47.14 | AndyMillar | heh, I've not got around to fixing my wireless on this laptop either tbh |
| 09:47.41 | gr0undhog | Yeah, I know - I'll be back in the Debian forums reading up like a newly-wed, so I really do want to solve this myself - right? Good to see some familiar names here too. |
| 09:49.39 | yaMatt | I've never really had major issues with wifi before |
| 09:50.12 | yaMatt | usually nagging little irritations :D |
| 09:50.24 | AndyMillar | Centos 6.2 doesn't pick it up on this laptop |
| 09:50.36 | gr0undhog | I ran into trouble with Ubuntu using Brasero - waste about five new dvd discs - lost my calm after that. But I have been pleased to manage to set up the drivers for my Kodak ESP C310 wireless-ready printer under Debian. |
| 09:51.30 | gr0undhog | i must say that the more I hear of others' experiences with laptops I'm pleased I can't afford one! |
| 09:53.21 | AndyMillar | nah, I generally don't have issues |
| 09:53.26 | AndyMillar | I've got RHEL6.2 on my other laptop and it's fine |
| 09:54.31 | yaMatt | I really wouldn't have expected CentOS to work with a laptop really |
| 09:54.57 | gr0undhog | By the way, I tried (but it seemed to die a death) to galvanise support for a LUG meeting in a pub. Even though it's got wifi, I hear. |
| 09:57.03 | yaMatt | yeah, I'm looking at putting things together, been a bad week |
| 09:57.26 | yaMatt | Sean never replied to my e-mail about getting things kicked off in Westminster uni |
| 09:57.30 | yaMatt | need to follow that up |
| 09:57.38 | gr0undhog | Still and all - I did try. As to running Red Hat stuff (or owt else Linux-wise) on laptops - I think it should be a doddle from my experience with quite a few distros. |
| 09:58.08 | gr0undhog | On HP pcs, however ... |
| 09:59.42 | AndyMillar | yaMatt: CentOS *should* work :p |
| 10:00.01 | yaMatt | on desktops I could understand it would work well, because that's what CentOS is designed to run on, most people would use it to run on desktops and submit the most bugs |
| 10:00.20 | yaMatt | CentOS is seen as a server OS by most people |
| 10:00.44 | yaMatt | I guess there will be a community of people who will want to run it on a laptop, but that will be much smaller, and therefore submit fewer bugs |
| 10:00.55 | yaMatt | so laptop support would be much trickier |
| 10:01.00 | yaMatt | would be my expectation |
| 10:02.56 | yaMatt | the Turing machine on todays Google doodle is really fun |
| 10:03.12 | yaMatt | it's actually teaching me how to program a turing machine |
| 10:03.16 | yaMatt | really interesting |
| 10:03.36 | AndyMillar | well, I run CentOS and RHEL servers, so I may as well use it |
| 10:04.46 | yaMatt | yeah, worth a go |
| 10:05.12 | yaMatt | should always be able to pull in a few things from Fedora if need be |
| 10:05.46 | yaMatt | ah, shit, need to get ready to go to this wedding |
| 10:05.50 | yaMatt | cya later |
| 10:06.01 | AndyMillar | good luck |
| 10:16.59 | w1bble | centos is seen as a cheap dead rat varient which is equally flawed and often a pita |
| 10:17.43 | AndyMillar | and here come the disto wars ;) |
| 10:22.59 | w1bble | not wars just my opionion, dead rat & centos do some things fucking awfully |
| 10:34.41 | AndyMillar | :p |
| 10:34.56 | AndyMillar | and I think the .deb way of doing things is fundamentally broken ;) |
| 11:39.40 | w1bble | agreed |
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| 12:02.41 | porjo | Does anyone know a website that shows what conferences are coming up in London for Linux & Open Source ? |
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