Re: distro for novices

[RRPotratz <thunderbolt@dustypenguin.com>]

Matt Price wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:07:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:56 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
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> > > Hi folks,
> > > I had a bit of a wake up call this week when I tried out Ubuntu.  I
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> > Have you tried Gnoppix?
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> er, no, is it much differentfrom the Ubuntu livecd (the one linked to
> from Ubuntu's website)?
> m
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Mepis  www.mepis.org .  "Just Works" on 2 different laptops I've tried.  
USB external drives, thumbdrives, ethernet, modem ( lucent winmodem ), 
sound, video, even wireless nic!  Nice choice of applications for a 1 
cdrom distro.  Easy install from the live cd.

Good luck