New Linux Installs from long time ago

[Bill Sconce]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:36:15 -0800 (PST)
Michael Nolin <michaelnolin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > just tried Ubuntu, and oh my gawd am I ever
> > impressed.  It isn't even
> > INSTALLED yet, it's just booted from the CD, and it
> > recognized nearly ALL of
> > my Toshiba laptops hardware.  I have an up and
> > running basic desktop without
> > answering even *1* question.
> 
> Yes I was completely confussed/thrown off by this.
> They really have a good simplicity theme going. I was
> also impressed with the update manager and package
> manaager. 
> 
> I highly recommend updating and adding some Kubuntu
> features, Konsole. 
> 
> This Distro is really something I could get my wife
> and kids onto using. I use all kinds of Distro's but I
> wouldn't trouble beginers whith them without first
> introducing Ubunto.



Thank goodness for Ubuntu.  Without them we might have
been faced with having to use the distribution previously
known as best for beginners, SuSE.  (SuSE did look good,
before Novell's decision to become a de facto subsidiary
of a major proprietary-software vendor.)

-Bill