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I have to agree with just about everything that was discussed, I too have given Ubuntu a try and did not like the experience. I was a long time Suse user and had major reservations when Novel bought them out but thought I would give them a chance and see what happened. Though I had at one time had thought I had found my distro, alas I do not agree with their latest corporate moves with respect to MS and view them without a lot of respect at this point and worry about their true motivations. But I am not here to begin an argument with respect to these issues but only brought it up because it has made me look once again at the various Linux distros in hopes of finding my new home. One of the annoying things that I just simply do not understand concerning the many different distros is why is seems almost a universal affliction that every group feels the need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to their particular distro. The inconsistency with the functionality of wireless cards is a very good example, I can't for the life of me understand why they have such a problem with rolling the applications that already have proven themselves to work into their own distros. I have tried several live CD's and DVD's and still have not found the distro I feel comfortable with yet, however here is an interesting tidbit I have observed. I have an older USB wifi device made by Linksys and so far every distro I have tried to get it to work under has been an utter failure, the ones I have tried, here is a partial list, Fedora, Sabayon, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mepis and Suse do not even recognize that I have a wireless device even connected to my PC. I was going to give it up to a lost cause and then I stuck a Elive live cd that I had gotten from a past Linux Format magazine in my DVD drive, once I had Elive up and running I pulled up their configuration program up and selected the network set up tool. It appeared that it actually saw that I had a wireless usb device attached and had even listed it as Wlan0, all I had to do was to put in the essid, and the wep key and hit a button named activate and I was online. Well I might just have to give this distro a long trial to see if by chance I have found a new home.

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