Re: [Sheflug] A place to start with Linux.. help please

[Beer Monster <monster [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan Pope wrote:

> I use Ubuntu which can be downloaded from http://ubuntulinux.org/ .
> It's got good hardware support and for the most part "Just Works
> (tm)". You'll probably get lots of recommendations for Fedora,
> Mandrake, Ubuntu and others. I'd try a few out until you're happy with
> one.
>
>  
> XMMS is quite a nice mp3 player - similar to Winamp. Firefox and
> Thunderbird come with Ubuntu. You can also backup your Thunderbird
> config on windows and use it under linux - this is what I did when I
> migrated the wifes PC from Windows to Linux.
>
>  
Hi Al,

Thanks for this advice.  It seems that Ubuntu is a good place to start 
and it's not one that i've heard of as much as SUSE/Mandrake etc, but 
i'll download it and give it a whirl.

Cheers
Col


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