I'll get to Linux eventually!

Almost a year later and I have installed kanotix 32 and 64, suse 64, fedora 5, attempted to install ubuntu, kubuntu 5.04 , knoppix 5 dvd sled 10 and a few other linux distros. I couldn't get past the bootup for sled and kubuntu. My msi s270's ati xpress200 video card was probably the problem. I managed to install kanotix, fedora 5 and kubuntu 6 in the 64 bit versions but I couldn't get my ipn2220 to run or the modem to work. Apparently slmodem is only written in 32 bit. There is a fix but it is too hard for me to do. Hopefully linmodem will create a 64 bit version sometime, then I will go 64 bit. My ipn2220 should have worked but it just wouldn't with 64 bit. Unfortunately although I don't like it much I have managed to install kubuntu 6.06 32 bit. For some reason known only to ubuntu I have had to download ndiswrapper and slmodem and install them. Why they just didn't load on the installation of kubuntu has me bemused. Oh well, it runs on both telephone and wireless now. So be it. Ubuntu doesn't load much software, not even some bare essentials. Luckily there is a heap of software available from a sources list I got from distrowatch Trevino's Blog. Lots of stuff I will never use but I will probably have a look at everything I can use in place of windows programs. Gnucash or Kmoney for starters. The minimum specs for windows vista 64 are probably beyond this little laptop. In spite of it being a mt37 turion with 2g ram. I also don't want to pay a bucketload for an iffie os. If I can just learn how to make this computer run wine properly I will be ok.