Fw: [Lust] Linux

[Karl]

Yeah, live cd's are excellent, I recommend knoppix or gnoppix, they give
you a taste of the kde and gnome desktop environments, respectively. I
personally use slax, but then I would 'cos i'm a slackware freak!
By the way, slackware is a distribution, not a desktop environment. My
favourite d.e.'s are 1. gnome 2. fluxbox 3. twm 99. kde.
A good starter distribution might be mandriva or suse.... then get
slack! ;)

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 19:16 +0000, Robin Smith wrote:
> A good starting point would be to try a "Live
> CD" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD ). This can run Linux from
> the CD-ROM or DVD drive without having to install any software on your
> computer. Because it loads all programmes as it needs them from the CD
> they tend to run slower than a version on Linux that has been installed
> on your hard disc.
> 
> A good version of Linux ( many will argue the merits of different
> distributions ) is Ubuntu. Their live CD can be downloaded from
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/5.10/ . Their main page is
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ .
> 
> Perhaps you should say what you wish to achieve with Linux. Make sure
> that the applications you wish to run are available - for example if you
> are heavily into PC games then you won't find a huge selection that run
> under Linux. However if you want to surf the internet and read email
> without having to worry about virii then it is an excellent platform. If
> you want to start writing your own software then it is a perfect
> platform to use.
> 
> Hope this sets you off in the right direction.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Robin
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:18 +0000, DP at WebStyle wrote:
> > Make that two old fools - this one is 67, lives in Watford but is 
> > experienced as an operator / user in Windows
> >  
> > David Price
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: John 
> > To: lust at mailman.lug.org.uk 
> > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:39 PM
> > Subject: [Lust] Linux
> > 
> > 
> > Has anybody got the time and patience to teach an old fool
> > the basics of Linux.
> >  
> > Thanks
> >  
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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