Best live CD (DVD) distribution

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wednesday 10 October 2007 04:41:27 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Bleah. Ubuntu gusty is crapping all over itself on a ~2 year old Dell
> Precision 470 workstation right now... Corrupted bootsplash screen for 5
> minutes, then finally dropped to text console and said something about one
> of the services failing to start. After another 5 minutes, it finally got
> to the login screen, said user 'ubuntu' would login in 10 seconds. User
> logged in, and was promptly dumped, back to a message "Your session only
> lasted less than 10 seconds ..." (nice engrish there). Huh. I was going to
> suggest possibly a bad burn, but upon looking at .xsession-errors, I see a
> warning about some gtk+ stuff trying to run setuid, and it not being
> supported, and a refusal to initialize gtk+. Closely followed by 'Could not
> launch
> dbus-daemon', because dbus_daemon_pid != 0... Granted, its pre-release
> software, but ouch... So stay away from today's gusty, I guess. :)

Must retract this statement until I checksum the iso I downloaded, and if 
that's okay, burn a new disc. A check of the disc says 'errors found in 4 
files!'.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com