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miggols99
January 3rd, 2009, 08:53 AM
Recently, Arch has been playing up, forcing me to boot in fallback mode. And unfortunately it refuses to work with my new Intuos3 graphics tablet. I've worked out that Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't work with my graphics tablet, but 8.10 does. Here's what I'd like the distro to have.

Stable
Up to date (so it works with my graphics tablet)
Rolling release (this would be great, but isn't completely necessary)
No KDE 3 (it's so...old :P)
GNOME, Xfce or KDE 4
hrod beraht
January 3rd, 2009, 11:05 AM
Well if you want up-to-date then how could you do better than a rolling release distro?
As for your graphics tablet, I assume you've tried the driver from Wacom (http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/select.cfm)? It works fine on my Sister's Arch install (Openbox).

Bob
albinootje
January 3rd, 2009, 11:12 AM
miggols99, in my opinion you should fix your problems with Arch Linux.
Meanwhile.. test SimplyMepis, Debian Lenny, Fedora 10.
mips
January 3rd, 2009, 11:21 AM
You want two things from a distro which are kinda mutually exclusive. Use ubuntu 8.10 or fix Arch.
huwnet
January 3rd, 2009, 11:27 AM
You may also need to disable Xorg input hotplugging for the tablet to work correctly. This is detailed on the Xorg page of the Arch Wiki
tomszyszko
January 3rd, 2009, 11:38 AM
Kubuntu is relativly stable and should be touch friendly enough, but there arent any calibration tools
hyperdude111
January 3rd, 2009, 01:22 PM
opensuse ubuntu or mint are my favourite distros. try a dual boot and see which one u like
Hyper Tails
January 3rd, 2009, 01:26 PM
kubuntu 8.10 has KDE 4
binbash
January 4th, 2009, 03:11 AM
archlinux gentoo or sabayon
gjoellee
January 4th, 2009, 03:28 PM
Fix it with Arch, or try Linux Mint (GNOME, XFCE, Fluxbox, KDE). They have not yet managed to made the Linux Mint with KDE 4.x
jrothwell97
January 4th, 2009, 04:27 PM
If a rolling release isn't essential, try Fedora 10. It's more bleeding-edge than Ubuntu and comes with GNOME by default. (It also happens to be biblically fast.)
gjoellee
January 5th, 2009, 11:54 AM
If a rolling release isn't essential, try Fedora 10. It's more bleeding-edge than Ubuntu and comes with GNOME by default. (It also happens to be biblically fast.)

Yes a frash install is faster, but with like 1/100 a second in most applications. A human wont notice it...