[ale] Back to square 1

[William Bagwell]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 06:25 pm, Billy049 wrote:
> The Xandros I use is not the store bought version.  It must be what they
> call the demo version.  It may be fully functional but some of the
> functions are crippled and don't perform up to speed.  I chose it
> because it was supposed to be very 'windows like'. I'm ready to part
> company with it and install something else.
>
> Debian and Ubundu sound interesting.  I should look further into them.
> I don't want to spend $80 on Linux just to get the hang of it.  Maybe
> later.

Debian is probably *not* going to be very "windows like" ;-) Kubuntu would 
be though. And I see you already have an offer...

> I'd be willing to turn loose a reasonable copying fee and mailing for
> something fully functional and good for a beginner.  Comments?

Naturally going to evangelize what I know best. Mandriva is newbie 
friendly, and has one of the best installers out there. The distro its 
self is not that bad. (No distro is perfect...) Free version is not 
deliberately crippled, but does lack proprietary stuff such as pre 
compiled Nvidia drivers that come with paid versions. Work around is quite 
painless the *second* time around:)

Still have my DVD ISO of 2006 and can burn you a copy if your intersted.
-- 
William