[olug] samba headache in ubuntu 8.04 laptop

[T. J. Brumfield]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:01 AM,  <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:
> I've been trying out various releases to replace Fedora 8. So far only Mandriva One 2009 is capable of booting up on the variety of machines being tested.
>
> I haven't been able to handle getting all the packages of interest as well as I have learned to do on Fedora. Many are not available. The ease of getting the installation close to what I want that the groups of packages presented by Fedora gives, hasn't been found yet. The replacement for the livna repositories hasn't been found yet.
>

Isn't PCLinuxOS built upon Mandriva?  You may want to try that as well then.

openSUSE has a wonderful build service that allows people to build
software on their servers for most major distros.  You can search for
Mandriva RPMs at http://build.opensuse.org and even build something
you're missing if you can't find the RPM anywhere else.  I also
recommend RPM Search at http://rpm.pbone.net/ but frankly if I can't
find an RPM I need, I just build it myself.

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