August Abolins -> Alan Zisman wrote:
 AA> || Note that the 8.04 release of Ubuntu is expected any day now... some
 AA> || interesting looking improvements have been reported, see for example:
 AA> ||
 AA> || http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1570
 AA> ||
 AA> || It might be worth waiting to install that version.


 AA> Thanks for the heads-up.   The umenu (and "Install INSIDE
Windows") is a
 AA> nice consideration. This will surely help minimize the fear of test-driving
 AA> Ubuntu for newbies.    But for me.. I would pick the "Boot into a New
 AA> World".  One day I forgot that I had removed the live-cd from the tray..
 AA> and
 AA> the system proceeded to boot to WinME.  As I had expected, the video
 AA> rendered in 16 colour mode using my NEW video card!  It also failed to
 AA> cooperate with my newly configured router-based network (I had it
 AA> previously
 AA> configured using ICS and that worked wonderfully well), but it disabled
 AA> access to the router with a message something like "A conflict
is detected
 AA> with 192.168.0.1 and MAC address..." and proceeded to simply disable the
 AA> interface!  WinME is junk.  I'm not going back there.

Not surprising that (2000-released) ME lacked drivers for a new video card.
The 'conflict detected' disabling is common to all Windows versions when an
IP address conflict is found. I'm not a big ME fan-- I prefer Win2000 on
hardware from that era-- but I've never found it as much of a disaster as
many seem to claim.

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