On Sb, 20 sep 14, 11:53:04, Gary Dale wrote: > > This is a reasonably powerful notebook that is probably running > Windows, not MSDOS. Well, at least here there are quite a few laptops for sale with only FreeDOS ;) > Any version of Linux will probably run fairly > well on it. It doesn't use any strange hardware so things should > just work. > > I recommend Debian/Testing (Jessie) which has been quite stable in > use and is more up to date than Debian/Stable (Wheezy). You can also > try the latest Linux Mint distribution, which is Debian-based and > quite popular. Are you sure it's a good idea to recommend testing to someone new to Debian? Stable is probably a much better entry point. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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