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james kilty wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:25 +0000, John Hansen wrote: > >> Yes I shall write to them giving my reasons. > Excellent. Who knows they may listen. >> I may also ask why they >> continue to included large DVD files with distros. I assume this is to >> justify a high cover price as few will need all these distros. > For £6.49 (reduced on subscription) I actually find it good. This time, > there are 10 distros including Debian and Virtualbox as an option to try > them all - apart from having 5 livve distros and the rest with .isos. > > Nevertheless the online tux mag looks OK. Maybe there are others we can > bring together as a beginners' resource. > Major problem with most Gnu/Linux distros for newbies is the loss of a default MS Windows while they dual boot on a Linux kernal upgrade, even in Ubuntu, which is some what easier on upgrades than others. Editing GRUB is not for newbies so a 'push' upgrade like last few days renders them with unbootable windows, and only Linux, This is major point to teach newbies how to edit grub. I always introduce Linux via a Live distro for this reason, they still have there old comfort win OS still active. PS rescuing a defunct windows system with Knoppix *really* makes converts! regards Eion MacDonald -- 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