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Your right Rob. My daughter got herself a laptop recently with vista home basic, and basic is right ! So much is cut out. It runs mint linux from a usb stick ok though (ubuntu based) but has atheros chipset so not got wireless working yet. Ray -----Original Message----- From: Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 16 January 2008 08:20 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] PCLinuxOS Was: Some small linux's briefly reviewed CHRISTOPHER BERRY wrote: > Glad to see PCLinuxOS getting some praise - I'm an old boy who has found > it far and away the most USER-FRIENDLY Linux OS and we are NOT going to > get converts to the cause like me if the OSs need a lot of technical > expertise. > Great stuff, > Grandad Bee. > P.S. Thanks for all the info re my Belkin USb adapter. > Funny that, I tried PCLinuxOS and found it to be awful to use, maybe it's because I'm so used to Ubuntu/Debian (I can never get on with Mandrake/Mandriva). Must be just me. Good to see it's encouraging Windows users to move over to Linux. It's great that there's so much choice (and in a good way, unlike the choices of about 12 different versions of Vista!) Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html