<html><body>Hi Westerham,<br /><br />Welcome to the Sussex LUG.<br /><br />On 7 July 2010 22:06, Malcolm Harris <westerham91@googlemail.com> wrote:<br />> Dear SLUGs,<br />> I'm thinking about using Ubuntu but am having problems setting up the<br />> software to evaluate it. <br />> I'm trying to look at a desktop Distro circulated by 'Linux User'.<br /><br />Is the disk from the July issue of Linux User and Developer with Ubuntu 10.04 and Fedora 13 on it?<br /><br />From what you say below it looks like it offers a live Ubuntu with an installation option. <br /><br />> I've<br />> tried on an ancient PC but it could not cope. I've tried booting an early<br />> Intel Macbook with the disk in to access a live disk but to no avail (I'm<br />> reluctant to try a partitioned installation on the Macbook as I've read a<br />> number of accounts on the web of people who have done this and then being<br />> unable to later remove the Distro or the partition.<br />> Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Please bear in mind that I'm<br />> not a coder - I thought using Ubuntu involved a lot of technical knowhow and<br />> programming but a colleague at work has recently installed it and keeps<br />> raving on about how fast and easy to use it is, hence my curiosity.<br />> Westerham<br /><br />Tell us what spec your "ancient PC" is. What processor power and what memory.<br /><br />Ubuntu is an easy graphical install.<br /><br />Did it install properly but not run?<br /><br />Ubuntu gives a choice of desktop managers to match resources. Xfce is lightweight.<br /><br />For example on my PIII 700Mhz 256MB laptop I installed Xubuntu to HDD and run OpenOffice Writer in it.<br /><br />Google will tell you more.<br /><br />If
you can make it to the next Sussex moot (Thursday 29th July in Horsham)
you will see a range of distros - and, especially if last month is
anything to go by - a very wide range of machines :-)<br /><br /><br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>