On Sunday 10 October 2010 09:37:36 Natalie Hooper wrote: > I got a Mint live CD from one of those Linux mags a couple of months ago so > I might give it a try. In fact, I've been collecting live CDs/DVDs for a > couple of months so I've got about 5 or 6 of them to try out but I can't > try them out on my current old desktop because the CD and DVD drives are > both broken unfortunately. Still waiting on my new computer but should get > it on Tuesday :-) > > Thanks everyone for your suggestions and keep them coming please. At the > moment, my plan is to try a few distros I have live CD/DVDs for, including > Ubuntu of course, and see which one I prefer. I am mostly concentrating on > Debian-based distros but will try out a couple of others as well. I expect > I might simply end up with Ubuntu due to familiarity with it but it's > always fun to try a few live CDs :-) > -- > Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
You could try Mepis (www.mepis.org), current versions are 8 (for KDE3) and 8.5 (for Kde 4.3), but version 11 (don't ask) is currently under development and due out towards the end of the year. Mepis is based on Debian Lenny and has a very strong and helpful support community. Tim -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
