Friends afraid of Linux?

Brian Chase networkr0 at cfl.rr.com
Mon Nov 1 07:12:34 UTC 2004


I've tried alot of distro's, and my favorite by far for desktop distro's 
for newbies would be Mepis Linux, check it out, it's like Knoppix, but 
even easier to install to hard drive and more GUI administration tools.


Timothy Payne wrote:

>Some one told me about www.knoppix.org the guy made a CD that will boot
>to KDE and not touch the hard drive.  They suggest 128 MB of ram as it
>only runs off of the CD and has to run in memory.  You can run it with
>less memory but check the site to see how.
>
>I downloaded the ISO and burned a CD, and it seemed to find everything
>on my machine.  I never thought it would make it through my firewall but
>I could just hop on the net or use open office.  A little slow, but hey
>your working off the CD drive.
>
>Now you can say "see Linux ain't so bad as Microsoft said"
>
>And when you are done all you need to do is shut down and remove the CD
>and reboot to what ever is on the hard drive.
>
>Now when FC3 comes out they'll want it installed on their machine.
>
>Tim... 
>
>  
>




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