[HLUG] Simple Linux distro

[Steve Horsfield]

 We've discussed this before. It is quite difficult to buy a lap top
without  Windows and the the new restrictions implemented by OEMs make it
very difficult to overwrite the operating system you didn't want to pay for
in the first place.
Steve



On 17 October 2012 18:25, Tim Spivey <tim at spiveyworld.net> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> My mother in law asked me to have a look at
>
> http://www.ordissimo.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175&Itemid=207&lang=en
> and
> see  what I thought, it looks a bit overpriced to me.  I think I could do
> better getting a cheap laptop and putting a distro of Linux on it which has
> a very simple frontend that I could configure for her.  Does anyone know of
> any Linux distros which allow the creation of a simple, unbreakable (!)
> frontend?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
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