On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:24:23AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:45:39AM +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
One question this raises is one that I originally asked - what Linux version should I choose? The original answers here were along the lines of "try them all" but I really don't fancy having to recompile kernels for all of them (and I don't believe one recompiled kernel will work for all, each distribution will almost inevitably have its own tweaks I believe). I think the three choices are Suse, Ubuntu or Mandriva. Suse 10.1 seems to have the fullest support for Vmware Server so, if nothing else seems to point elswhere, I may go for Suse.
Any comments or ideas?
Could you perhaps try the latest Beta of Ubuntu Edgy (which should be out today or thereabouts) as they are planning a release by the 20th of October and they quite often include support for slightly weird and wonderful hardware. It also looks like they have a fix for the Jmicron issue on your motherboard but I'm not sure if they've applied it to their daily builds yet or not.
It's certainly worth a try. The JMicron fix is in the 2.6.18 kernel which is now released so if that's in Edgy it may do what I want.
I'll download the installation ISO and have a go this evening.