Hi Guy,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">guy keren</b> <<a href="mailto:choo@actcom.co.il">choo@actcom.co.il</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> whatever you do - please be careful with choosing ubuntu - version 8.04<br> completely broke sound support for many programs i'm talking about<br> usability - not about politics) - and people kept asking questions about<br>
this issue on the various forums, at least until august (i stopped<br> looking, since by that time i managed to somehow work around most of the<br> sound issues).<br> <br> i understood that in fedora 9 (that also integraded soundpulse to some<br>
extent) - this problem does not exist.</blockquote><div><br>Those are the main things that I checked. Especially for
beginners, things should work out of the box, and we shall never tell
them "do this and that, and now it will work". It's part of the (false)
impression that Linux get because of such things from newbies who just
want a new system that works.<br>
<br>As for sound - Mandriva 2009 and Fedora 9 had no problem with any
of these. Wifi, on the other hand, had issues in kernel 2.6.24-2.6.25
when it comes to Intel cards (especially 3945ABG and 4965AGN which are
very common in today's laptops, especially Dell and Thinkpads). The
module had to be reinstalled with some hacking, and it's not something
that you would let newbies to do. Anyway, those issues were fixed
afterwards. Mandriva 2009 includes the newest kernel (2.6.27-rc5, will
be 2.6.27 until it is released) and so does Fedora 10, so they both
don't have those wifi problems. Both wifi and sound work out of the box.<br>
<br>Regards,<br><br>Adir <br></div><br></div><br>