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

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

I've got a Macbook - as has my wife now.  They are fine machines.  When 
my XP that I run Lightroom dies, I'll probably replace that with either 
a Mac Pro or Imac.

So many PCs - so little time :-)



Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK

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Mark Kronquist wrote:
> Ubuntu is good but why not get a Mac?
> On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Mark Pope wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
>> Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
>> Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
>> Picture a week (2009)  
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>>                (2008) 
>> http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
>>
>>
>> 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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