[NBLUG/talk] Hello

[Christopher Wagner]

1) Yes there is an archive of previous posts:
http://nblug.org/pipermail/talk/

2) That's definitely an odd one, upgrading from Hoary to Breezy should
not have caused such a problem.  The easily solution would be to try
simply reinstalling from scratch, the more difficult but "right" way to
do it would be to try and find out what's sucking all your resources. 
'top' is frequently a effective way of doing that.  Once you've got
'top' loaded (from a command line) at the top of the screen is a
detailed display of general memory and processor usage, as well as some
mildly interesting other information.  Below that is the 'top' list of
processes running on the system.  'M' (case-sensitive) will put the
process that is using the most memory at the top, and then on down from
there.  'P' will put it back to the default of sorting by processor usage.

3) DVD burners..  My experience is that most burners will work with
Linux.  Personally, I use an internal SONY DVD burner, one of the fancy
dual-layer high speed drives, and haven't encountered any problems.

Good luck Art!

- Chris

Art Hampton wrote:

> OK. I'm tired of showing up at the nblug meetings and sitting quietly
> and enjoying the show. Maybe I can expose myself a bit and get more
> involved using this venue. Or maybe this is the wrong place for that
> and I'll get whacked. Whatever. Is there a repository somewhere of
> previous posts to this list so that a I can review what has been
> hashed over previously and not repeat all that?
>
> Just let me remark that I have a dual P3 machine which a friend and I
> put together a few years ago for editing video. It had to be fast and
> have fast scsi drives in order to do that job. It has 256 Meg of ram.
> It was a killer machine in its day. I have of course upgraded to a P4
> and WXP to run Premiere and Photoshop. But I don't want to surf the
> web with Microsoft's crappy unsecure OS, so I use Linux on the P3.
> I've been running Ubuntu, which seemed like a reasonable release
> (Hoary). About a week or so ago I went to update my system and wound
> up with Breezy. Breezy almost killed my system. What was a reasonably
> brisk machine now is a slow slug. C'mon!! What the F is going on here?
> All I do is a little typing, a spreadsheet now and then and surf a
> bit. What is the advantage of the new and bloated OS? When Unix was
> invented did they have machines with 256 megabytes of ram? I don't
> think so...
>
> My Commodore 64 almost worked better. So I'm exploring Morphix which I
> learned about from Kyle Rankin's lovely book, Knoppix Hacks. I'm
> looking for a simple system which will let me type and see what I'm
> typing. At times using Badger I'm looking at a dead screen while I
> type into the buffer, trying to not make any mistakes. Got to be a
> better way. End of rant.
>
> Question - is there a place to check on what hardware works best with
> Linux? I'd like to get a dvd burner which is fast and dependable with
> Linux. It seems to me that if a hardware manufacturer or VAR provided
> great open source drivers for their equipment they would have a usable
> niche that the competition is avoiding. This has no doubt already been
> discussed to death.
>
> Art
>
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