<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">try puppy linux, tiny (60Mb) and work well.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.goosee.com/puppy">http://www.goosee.com/puppy</A></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 13 Oct 2005, at 13:57, Ry. wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Hi, my laptop harddrive packed up and I lost my old OS (XP Pro). I can't afford to replace the Win OS at moment, so I'd like some advice on choosing a Linux OS.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've had issues with 2 versions so far - using Fedora Core 4, I wasn't able to view the graphics correctly and therefore couldn't even finish the installation. Knoppix works and runs fine except one problem, the laptop touchpad mouse only seems to work for 3/4 of the screen area. Not sure if I can fix this or not....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyways... I want an OS that is pretty handy to install, will auto detect most of my settings (graphics card, mouse, USB, etc), MS Word compatible & good MP3 player (probably ubiquitous, not sure), and if it had a web server built in (e.g. apache) that would be the cherry on the cake.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any advice would be gratefully received! Thanks a bunch</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ryan. </DIV><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1"> <A href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=36035/*http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/">Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:dundee@lists.lug.org.uk">dundee@lists.lug.org.uk</A><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>http://dundee.lug.org.uk</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee">http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-----------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV>Owen Daily</DIV><DIV>Graphic Designer</DIV><DIV>Marketing Department</DIV><DIV>Dundee College</DIV><DIV>Kingsway Campus</DIV><DIV>DUNDEE DD3 8LE</DIV><DIV>Tel: 01382 834834 ext 5345</DIV><DIV>Fax: 01382 858117</DIV><DIV>Email: <A href="mailto:o.daily@dundeecoll.ac.uk">o.daily@dundeecoll.ac.uk</A></DIV><DIV>-----------------------------------------------</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>