[Hudlug] newbee

[Paul Brook]

On Sunday 21 November 2004 11:49, david richards wrote:
> Hi, I'm getting more and more disenchanted with windows, its product
> activation and bloat/spy ware, i am wanting to explore the Linux operating
> system as a possible replacement for Microsoft products, ideally i would
> like to try out a distro on a test basis with version of an office suite,
> can any one help me with minimum requirements for some thing to replace
> office 2000 and windows9x?

If you're just wanting to play with things, and see if they work, I hightly 
reccommend Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org). It's a linux "live" CD which 
contains most software you're likely to want (2.4 and 2.6 Kernels, KDE, 
OpenOffice, Mozilla, GIMP).

This is often a bit slower and more memory hungry than a normal linux distro 
because it runs directly fom the CD. It does however men you can try 
everything out without having to touch your harddisk. You can get knoppix to 
install to you harddisk, though I wouldn't really reccommend this.

For a proper install I'd recommend Ubuntu, Mandrake or Fedora Core.

Paul