[TriLUG] About to take the Ubuntu plunge.....

[Andrew C. Oliver]

dsandif wrote:
> After fighting with RedHat, messing with Fedora and glaring at Centos, 
> Suse and the like, I've decided to go after the other popular tropical 
> species of linux: Ubuntu. The question I have is which one?
> Ubuntu? or Kubuntu? I will be using this on a desktop and on a laptop, 
> of which I'll need to get a wireless PCMCIA card  (Cisco Aironet 350 
> &Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g wireless adapter) and I'll need
> some high end programing tools, editors and the like. KDE will be the 
> session of preference but I want to make sure that I get all the 
> bells, jack hammers and whistles too, suggestions?, thxs!
>
> D-
why not download/burn the live CD and give it a boot.  See if you like 
it and that it works.  the aironet should work so long as it is 
pcmcia...the minipci were always a pain and I had to use internal Cisco 
versions of the driver to get it to work.

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