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[dennisw]

Here’s a good Linux question.

Can you use a DVI monitor with it?

Does it have font smoothing anti-aliasing like Microsoft Cleartype which first appeared in Windows XP.

[RhoTheta]

I have been running Feisty Fawn on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop successfully for a couple of months now. I installed it on its own 60GB harddrive (identical with the OEM drive on which I keep Windows XP Pro). I can just slide one or the other in and boot up. Just after the decision to do this, Dell announced that it would be delivering Ubuntu 7.04 as an option on three of its platforms, including IIRC an Inspiron 1560 laptop. Dell has a support forum for their Linux users, and the Ubuntu website also has support forums.

So far, I like Ubuntu Feisty Fawn a lot. It lets me do almost everything I want to do. OpenOffice can work with MS Word doc files and MS Excel xls files. The OpenOffice database program so far can't deal with mdb files, but I can RDP to my desktop (running Windows XP Pro) and do that remotely. Firefox works great, and I am using Zimbra (a web-mail app) through the Firefox. Some of the available Linux programs, free or not, are a little rougher and more primitive than their MS cousins, but I would imagine that now that Dell has "legitimized" Ubuntu Linux, a growing user base will drive the application developers and choices will improve.

Right off the install disk (downloaded an ISO and burned an install CD), Ubuntu 7.04 had no trouble connecting to my WPA2-protected wireless LAN. I am still having some trouble connecting to SharedDocs on my Windows workstation, although the shared HP LaserJet 4 share came right up. The only other problem I haven't been able to resolve is screen resolution: the default is 1920 x 1600 or some such, instead of 1280 x 800. So I just bought these coke-bottle reading glasses...

[Snerdley]

Ok, I know I’m late to the thread (I actually found it searching on something else), and I’ve had Ubuntu setup in a separate partition on my desktop (lightly used) and recently on my HP 6000 laptop. I like it, and use if afterhours and weekends, but boot back to my MCE (XP) partition by default.

Ubutnu is ALMOST there, I did have a ton of difficulties with various technical glitches (Nvidia drivers, Beryl, WPA2, even Grub issues with the dual boot) but I’ve got most of them ironed out because there is excellent help out there on the net.

The one issue I’ve not yet resolved, is use of USB Flash drives. I have an external 160gb drive and two flash drives that I use for important documents, passwords, and PortableApps (Win32 only). does anyone have tips on reliable dynamic use of USB storage drives with Feisty?

Thx, -Snerdley