Goodbye

[Efwkub at aol.com]

James,

Thank you for your kind comments.
I don’t want to go far into the actual issues because I have to move on. 
Briefly,

Kuser - I entered the right password when asked, no problems at that stage

Ksysguard - please see amigrave’s response. I also had this problem with 
SUSE, my laptop is up to date and is supposed to do ACPI properly, and to work 
with SUSE

Login Manager - I only set this out briefly. The position is that I couldn’t 
get into it, and experienced what I described. On (all - with Kubuntu) 
previous attempts to get into it I was barred in a different way (getting symptoms 
similar to those described by a subscriber called Stroller). No upgrade or 
change save shutting down then later restarting the PC. 

Hardware. Yes one wonders. But no direct symptoms. No problems with live CD’
s. Not likely to be RAM because plenty of problems while with the original (HP) 
512 MB, then plenty with the (high quality) 2GB upgrade. Did test it, 
thoroughly. Power - either on the laptop battery, or via a UPS. Overheating, can’t be 
sure but think I would have noticed. Did have a thermometer on the fan outlet 
at one stage out of interest, this was fine. Mismatched buses - HP notebook, 
no mods save RAM, haven’t seen anything on Web re such problems with it. 

Thanks anyway,

And re choosing, yes glad that people have choices especially after many many 
years of MS. But hope you will also bear in mind my point about not 
misleading people as to the nature of the choices. 

******
McDave

I agree about growth, being enterprising, in general. I try to be positive. 
But I am having to try to grow in a lot of other areas, and sometimes one has 
to decide how best to allocate limited resources. 
If I merely wanted a PC for personal use I could be relaxed about the risk or 
actuality of hours or days without it while I wrestled with problems. But we 
use them in our small business, and others depend on what I provide. We need 
something that works at least the great majority of the time, and which I can 
fix when it doesn’t, and make suggestions about over the phone. If I can’t be 
sure of being able to do this I can’t use a system. 
People are helpful, but for all that one is often on one’s own with a 
problem. In any event it is only reasonable to do a fair amount of searching, reading 
and experimenting before asking. I tried to minimise problems by going to 
SUSE (not that expensive, but not free, BTW) but as mentioned I gave up on their 
support. 
Thank you also for your suggestions about Mandrake or Fedora, I do note your 
use of "probably".

All the best to you both, and I am going to unsubscribe now, lots to do!

Regards,   Edward
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