scarecrow

Under Mandrake I have to use el_GR.UTF8 for proper accentuation. Unfortunately unicode as system default makes some programs like Scribus behaving funnily. As for font rendering- do you use an xorg driver, or a vendor one? (Nvidia, or ATI, or whatever...).

Arch is the best distro I have touched so far... extremely fast, so simple than even a dummy can figure out how to make the damn thing work with just a minimum of knowledge, and perfectly balanced between bleeding edge and lack of bugs. A total n00b will not feel too familiar with it, as there is no control center or any GUI for pacman and basic administration, but the majority of Linux users could (should?) fall in love with it. my wombat installation is still pretty bare (i managed to install xfce yesterday) and i still need to figure out how to download the extra packages since i dont have internet at home. i suppose cygwin+wget+bash will help me in that area. Simply create a local repository, as described in: http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacma...20configuration Also, do NOT use a physical partition for /tmp in Arch. Remove devfs competely (you could omit it while installing the OS) and keep it like that on /etc/fstab (it's the default): none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

Not interested here seeing Linux konquering the desktop: Every script kiddie will run after OS vulnerabilities. For me it just works, it is free, I miss nothing from Windows, and I don't care if my neighbour will jump on the train or not. If he likes to pay Gates for bugs, then I am the last person on earth that will prevent him doing so.

Under MDK 10.2 beta2 which I currently use in my laptop, my pen drive is automounted at /mnt/removable. More than that, my main box runs Arch Linux 0.7 with quasi-vanilla 2.6.10 kernel, udev, dbus and hal. Whenever the pen drive is slotted to any USB slot, it automounts at /media/USB_DRIVE and a pen drive icon appears on KDE desktop (you need better than 3.3.2 for that- I am running KDE 3.4 beta 2 AKA "Keinstein" from the Arch "unstable" repository, and it works just great). As for your i925X chipset, it's very new and Intel hardly has issued reliable drivers for windows- yet... so Linus and his 2.6.X will be there after a while, after all he seems being more patient than most. If this thing is a "bottleneck" for you, feel free using windows.