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

[chuck child]

I should note. . . . .The right tools are partition resizing utilities, to
produce some blank partition space for Ubuntu to take residence in.

On 2/15/07, chuck child <chuck.child at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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