[penguicon-general] Anyone want to help bring me back to the Linux fold?

[Tracy Worcester]

On 2/15/07, Dan DeSloover <zifferent at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Tracy Worcester <tracy.worcester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Doubt I'll need more than one.  Which one is most out of the box, non-IT
> > user friendly these days?
>
> Without getting into a distro war, Ubuntu is probably as user friendly as
> they come.


I suspected Ubuntu, but I wasn't sure if I was out of touch.  (:

>From a newbie standpoint, the install CD is also a Live-CD, it supports
> quite a bit of hardware
> right out of the box, almost everything is configurable with gui tools,
> has a large repository of
> software and large and friendly online community.


Cool!

Other than that, Matt might have better input for you on his experiences
> with it and whether it
> would be right for you.
>
> You can get it here:
> http://lug.mtu.edu/iso/ubuntu/edgy/ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso


K, I'll have to see about burning a disk this weekend.  Does a Live CD mean
I can use it for similar purposes to a Knoppix disk, to see if all my
hardware works before nuking my OS?

As for help, I live several hours away, so that's no help. Fortunately
> someone mentioned GLLUG
> which oddly enough seems to be having a meeting tonight.


Sadly, so do I.  And 12 pages of objectives to review prior to an exam on
Tuesday. Whee.  (:

...Tracy
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