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Quoting Matt Lee <mattl@xxxxxxx>:
Right now, I believe Debian is the distribution that the community should promote to new users. Debian testing, to be exact. It can be easily upgraded, seems rock solid, supports a beautiful and consistent interface in the form of GNOME and hot plugging of devices works like a dream. I find KDE to be Windows with eye-candy, whereas GNOME and its spatial interface actually works. My mother, having never used GNOME before was able to login, open a browser and log onto her GMail account without problems - this is the kind of thing we need to promote, and promoting the purpose of free software let's us do just that. GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux.
Well I tried to promote Mandrake 9.2 to my friend last night, we kind of got it installed, well he installed it and I just sat near by, it installed okay but since the machine has an on board video card AND a PCI video card installed it got confused and wouldn't work. Not a good start, I told him to try SUSE Personal 9.1 and he couldn't even burn the ISO to a disc without my PC crashing! :-| Not sure what the other distributions would be like with the dual graphics cards, I know it isn't a standard thing to have two graphics cards but it confused my friend. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.