[Leica] OT: buying a Windows laptop for my son

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

I use Ubuntu.  I have tried a couple of other distributions, mainly 
Mandriva and two flavours of Suse Linux.  I didn't like the package 
management under Suse and in the end, it drove me completely crackers, 
so I changed to Ubuntu.

I recommend a book called 'The Linux Cookbook' by Carla Schoeder, 
published by O'Rielly.  Amongst many other things, it covers Samba in 
quite a lot of detail, though for many I suspect a simple anonymous file 
server is all that's needed for most people.

As its title suggests, the book is organised as a series of recipes and 
  is very easy to follow.

I can supply some details on how to configure this if anyone is 
interested.  Just PM me.

Cheers

Mark




Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK

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R. Clayton McKee wrote:
> Quoth the Jeff Moore :
> 
>> 2009-07-11-05:06:30 Charlie Meyer:
>>> BTW, anyone have suggestions for which Linux flavor is best for
>> AMD
>>> based laptops?
>> I've recently revisited the question of whose Linux packaging to
>> install, Ubuntu has come back out on top.  I just installed 64-bit Ubuntu
>> 9.04 on a little server, and am pleased to report that 64-bit Linux seems 
>> to
>> be mainstream and no particular trouble now.
> 
> I have Ubuntu 9.04 "on a stick" on both my AMD64 HP laptop and my 
> Atom netboook, for the rare occasions when I need Linux in the field 
> for some reason, and it seems to work fine on both.  I didn't much 
> care for the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the desktop had been changed and a 
> bunch of things weren't the way I wanted them, but getting Ubuntu to 
> install on a USB drive was easy....
> 
> My current PITA is getting my new machine, running 9.04-64 desktop 
> (powering my scanners and, eventually, holding the photo library) to 
> interface with my existing XP network.  Networking was never my long 
> suit, and getting Samba configured is apparently a bit more complex 
> than it looks.  I'll get it pummeled into submission one of these 
> days, however.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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