[NTLUG:Discuss] Fry's and Linux

[Kermit Jones]

Linspire = Lindows - just to reiterate.

>The Bad:
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>It's not as stable as any Linux distro I've used to date.  I could have
>weeks of uptime, even months on either slack or mandrake, with linspire
>I'm lucky to get a week, beyond that it get's graphics funkiness and
>programs will just refuse to load.
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I'm curious if you think this might be because it is on 
ultra-low-end-budget harware, also?  I mean, I'm not saying Linspire is 
stable (and I would never recommend it to someone) but I'm curious as to 
whether you have  better uptime with different distro or if some of it 
is hardware related.  Please report back.

>If something fails to install through the click and run interface, there
>is no other option for installing it, and it will not succede in
>subsequint attempts to install it.
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Open up /etc/apt/source-list and uncomment the 2 bottom lines.  Then you 
can just apt-get update  and install!  Yeppers! Linspire has debian 
under the hood, though I think they MIGHT have some mixture of unstable 
and testing, which can break things.  I would recommend just updating to 
unstable all around.  Debian unstable, I have found, is often more 
stable than other distros.