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[Tom <question76424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76424 on Ubuntu changed:
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Tom proposed the following answer:
Beryl is not a distro, it's just a package and it's what Ubuntu used
before we switched over to Compiz.  I thought we were tring to find out
how to fix Ubuntu so that it would work on your machine?

Trying another distro, such as Wolvix might help us fix Ubuntu and probably the best way to try out a demo of a distro is to try it as a LiveCd session rather than as full install because you get to see what it's like faster.  If you want to spend ages wandering which other distro to try then this page might help
http://distrowatch.com
as DistroWatch is a popular place to compare different distros because it's the only site of it's type that is kept so up-to-date and contains almost every distro that exists or has existed with a standardised page so you can compare thm and find you way to their download sites and user foums more easily.  My own approach to this was to go through as many different distros as i could in a very short amount of time, and then started looking around at what people were saying.  In some cases they clearly didn't know what they were talking about but in other cases some insightful comments were made so i often went back through the LiveCd's to see if that made a difference.  You can read and theorise endlessly but you'll only really find out the truth of it, on your hardware, by just trying it out.  I found Wolvix Hunter 1.1.0 was reasonably fast to download, worked on a good range of machine and did enough of what i wanted easily enough.  Knoppix LiveCd has slightly better hardware detection but it's bigger and takes longer to download and ages to boot up but i found Wolvix more likely to work on dodgy old cd/dvd-drives.  Puppy is smaller and lighter but again takes longer to boot up also it's compressed so it's difficult to add new programs or to hunt around in files like xorg.conf to copy answers.  Oddly although puppy is so much smaller it has trouble if the cd/dvd-drive is a bit wonky.  Neither of these 2 are much good to install either and Wolvix Hunter is the only smaller distros i've found with OpenOffice, most use AbiWord which can't be set to default to microsquish formats.  So feel free to hunt around using your criteria "must have beryl or compiz" and maybe find a different distro to stick with for a while.  Maybe one day you'll be able to return to Ubuntu or maybe you'll be happy with whatever you find.  

On the other hand you could quickly try out Wolvix Hunter as a LiveCd and then maybe fix Ubuntu.  Linux is about choices, diversity and freedom amongst other things so good luck and happy hunting :)
Regards from
Tom :))

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