I like Ubuntu and find it's easy to use. It's working on my E1505. To get your wireless working, you'll need to go to System>administration>network . Then click on your wireless card and select properties. Clear the check in the box marked "enable roaming" and input your network connection name and your 26 digit wep key.

I think you should try more than one distro. It's no good to find a distro that looks like Xp, Linux it's not Xp, it's different but not only in look'n'feel. Some distro is better for begginers (like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandrake) and other is better for advanced users (like Debian, Slackware, Gentoo) but the advantage of GNU/Linux is the variety of distros. In Windows you can only about home and bussines user but without any customization but in Linux you can find a distro developed specific for a lot of tasks.

So please, try one distro and if you don't like it, don't care, there is another suitable for you

Of course there is a lot of live-cd's with linux so you can run directly from cd without any kind of installation on hard disk also capables to save changes on a single file on a windows partition. It's a good beginning to test linux (like knoppix or ubuntu-live).

Hope it helps you, bye bye

Message Edited by kayser on 04-25-2007 07:15 AM

There is no answer for this question. This is like asking what is the best car made. Obviously Subaru is the correct answer but there is no better version of Linux as they're all basically the same except bundled with specific software to fit your needs. I think Debian is the best reason to use Linux. It's rock solid and does not hold your hand which lets you do more and also learn more in my opinion. People tend to favor Ubuntu which is what we deploy to all out Dell machines at work and they run nicely. I would suggest the following and try them all and see which was best for you: - Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.04 www.ubuntu.com - Debian 4.0 www.debian.org - Fedora Core 6 www.fedora.redhat.com Good luck!

Hi, ubuntu and kubuntu are the same but in ubuntu the default window manager is gnome and in kubuntu are kde, but you can change it after install. Ubuntu are based on debian but it's not relationed because ubuntu are develped by a enterprise called canonical and debian are a community developed distribution. It is easyest to install ubuntu but if you wanna learn about linux try debian.

No, Debian or K/Ubuntu can't use RPM files. However if you have an RPM file that is not available as a .deb file, you can install a program called "alien"

$ sudo apt-get install alien

This program will take a .RPM file and convert automatically to a .deb file for you. Let me show you how it works and its very simple. Please note I have already installed alien on my system.


cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ ls flexbackup-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm

cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ sudo alien flexbackup-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm flexbackup_1.2.1-2_all.deb generated

cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ ls flexbackup-1.2.1-1.noarch.rpm flexbackup_1.2.1-2_all.deb

cwilliams@cwilliams:~/Desktop$ dpkg -i flexbackup_1.2.1-2_all.deb [/code]

As you can see after I ran the alien command, I now have a new file on my desktop with a .deb extension. Then I run the last line command to install the new .deb file on my system. So basically you just installed an RPM on a Debian based system. However - Debian or Debian based systems have much better package managers than Redhat so I highly doubt that there is a .rpm file that is not a .deb file. Good luck!

Message Edited by Carlwill on 04-27-2007 09:18 AM

Try live distros.
Especially the free ones.

I like Knoppix.

If you are going to pay Linspire is a good LIVE distro as well as a good
overall distro.

YOu can get alien by typing "sudo apt-get install alien" in a terminal window. It'll look just like carl typed. Linux is nice. I like all the community support.