[NBLUG/talk] Suggestions for newbie Linux Person

[Tim Preston]

Uuuhm yeah... It's more than an operating system.

:p Tim

Rob Orsini wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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