On Thursday 16 August 2007 19:44:34 Herbert Graf wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 12:34 -0400, Peter Todd wrote: > > > Who would have thought there would be a day where installing a new > > > device in Linux would be LESS work and bother then Windows? > > > > I know! I've been using Linux for years now, Debian mainly, which never > > had that great a reputation for ease of use. The new Debian Etch release > > keeps on surprising me with how much stuff "just works" > > For the longest time I've been a Redhat/Fedora user, mostly since that's > simply what I've used most, but also because that's what we use at work. For almost 10 years, I'd always sworn by Slackware. But, I can appreciate how simple life has become since I started using Kubuntu. It even has geda, sdcc, gputils and other useful tools in the _official_ repositories. So, you can get down to doing some useful work immediately. Cheers. -- with metta, Shawn Tan Aeste Works (M) Sdn Bhd - Engineering Elegance http://www.aeste.net -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist