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

[chuck child]

Yep. . . You can boot to it, and run it, and test it. . . And, with a little
help from someone with the right tools (cough cough) Ubuntu does a pretty
seemless dual-boot. . . So you have an escape plan, should you still need
something from the windows side.

On 2/15/07, Tracy Worcester <tracy.worcester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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