[Stoves] Ubuntu (off topic)

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 09:51:59 CST 2007


From: "Jeremy Pemberton-Pigott" <fuzzychaos at rogers.com>

I've actually used it.  It is designed, from what I remember, for people
moving from Apples.  It is very nice graphically.  As far as a Linux
distro it is pretty good, but not so friendly when working with a
multi-boot OS (which according to the website is much improved).

Jeremy

> From: "Jeff Forssell" <jeff.forssell at cfl.se>

> I've had some good experience with Ubuntu. A rich south african supports 
> the
> project. You can even get 5 free CDs (even postage!) sent to you.
>
> I'd like to recommend another distro: PuppyLinux which has a lot of good
> characteristics- one which can be especially important for the people we
> want to help: it can run om older computers (with RAM down to even 32 Mb,
> but they have to be pentium at least). The whole Iso file is only 60-100 
> Mb!
> (there are many flavors, and it is supposed easy to create dedicated
> packages)
>
> Yours Truly,
>
> Jeff Forssell  /Sweden




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