[HLUG] Simple Linux distro

[Tim Spivey]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004GGB7UQ/ref=mp_s_a_1?pi=SL75&qid=1350501084&sr=8-1?
A cheap Linux laptop
On Oct 17, 2012 7:19 PM, "Steve Horsfield" <horsfield.steve at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  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
>
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> 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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