[HLUG] Simple Linux distro

Julian Robbins joolsr1 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 19:20:05 UTC 2012


I bought a motherboard combo from them . Been working well for a long
while. They have a shop in Cardiff too if you're ever down that way...

I have a feeling that dell is restarting its linux laptops line..

Julian
On Oct 17, 2012 8:16 PM, "george dicegeorge" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.novatech.co.uk/
> sell computers without Windows,
> they assemble them in Portsmouth
> so if something goes wrong you can take it back.
>
> I bought this laptop from them, very nice.
>
> [george]
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Steve Horsfield
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 7:18 PM
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Simple Linux distro
>
> 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<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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