Richard:
I would say that I have experience at sending a ubuntu CD in the mail to
a late 50s computer unfriendly individual. He got the CD yesterday and
called me once last night while resizing his Windoze partition. I called
him this morning, and he was running with ubuntu.
Wayne
Richard C.
re like a windows
> machine would be.
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> From: "Tim Wescott"
>
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:50:29
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:55, wrote:
> I would also consider mint, as it is ubuntu without the hassle of hunting
> down proprietary
> codecs, etc. I have used their live cd and it works well. It is yet another
> flavor but well done and
> set up a bit more like a windows machine would be.
Su
-Original Message-
From: "Tim Wescott"
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:50:29
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and
on-topic
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Live CD List
Personally, I would hand her an Ubuntu disk, because I know it would have
a good chance of making her happy, and it wou
Personally, I would hand her an Ubuntu disk, because I know it would have
a good chance of making her happy, and it would require the least work on
her part to get to the point of looking at a live Linux screen. The list
looks like a great thing if you're looking for the best disk to hand her
-- b
nice link :)
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I'm going to offer a Live CD to a coworker who lamented having to use
> Vista. She mentioned having worked for Lucent, knew about Unix, but
> hadn't heard of BSD or Linux. Before starting this e-mail I thought I'd
> ask for
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 07:19, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I thought I'd
> ask for recommendations on where to find a list of live cds.
My first stop usually is http://www.distrowatch.com, then I search for livecd:
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Live+CD#distrosearch
I have tried live
Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I'm going to offer a Live CD to a coworker who lamented having to use
> Vista. She mentioned having worked for Lucent, knew about Unix, but
> hadn't heard of BSD or Linux. Before starting this e-mail I thought I'd
> ask for recommendations on where to find a list of
I'm going to offer a Live CD to a coworker who lamented having to use
Vista. She mentioned having worked for Lucent, knew about Unix, but
hadn't heard of BSD or Linux. Before starting this e-mail I thought I'd
ask for recommendations on where to find a list of live cds. I continued
that line of
