re: newbie stuff

From: Dave Stevens (geek_at_uniserve.com)
Date: 12/24/04

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    To: mdw1982@mdw1982.com, fedora-list@redhat.com
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 08:20:04 -0800

    You know, Mark, reading this Fedora list thread, I think you are being misled
    a bit about Linux by implication. I use Fedora every day and am overall quite
    happy with it. But it might be worthwhile for you to download and burn a copy
    of Knoppix or Ubuntu or Mepis, which are other Linux distributions that run
    live from CD and DO NOT ALTER YOUR HARD DRIVE. So you set the BIOS to boot
    from CDROM, insert the option you like and try it. Then when you are
    finished, just go back to booting from your disk of choice with no change.

    And all three of these distributions I've named make it MUCH EASIER for the
    newbie, that's their intent; Fedora is a good solid distro but has a fairly
    high geek factor.

    HTH,

    Dave 

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