[NBLUG/talk] Suggestions for newbie Linux Person

[Rob Orsini]

On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Walter Hansen wrote:

> I want to set up a dual boot for my wife. I'd like a distro that looks
> nice in x-windows and is easy to update and such. I was thinking  
> fedora as
> it seems simple these days, but thought I should ask for  
> sugestions. This
> is for her "new" PIII-700 that's running W2000Pro (already  
> installed). I
> was going to partition the second 20G drive 50/50 and put the  
> distro on
> the first and then make the second a FAT32 that would be accessable  
> from
> both. I set up the first as a FAT32 as NTSF had issues under Linux  
> last I
> remember. She wants to poke arround with Linux and I wouln't mind  
> playing
> with a desktop more. I generally play with servers in a shell  
> enviornment
> or webmin so I'm a little lacking on x-windows knowledge.


Well, I think that any distro that sells their own thong is well  
worth a spin around the block.

http://www.cafepress.com/ubuntushop.14580695

;)

Rob