The only thing that may require a bit more work for the inexperienced unix user is the networking of computers/printers, but the following wiki provides a pretty good tutorial for doing so in ubuntu linux:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently
good luck
On 1/16/06,
Donald J Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:55:01AM -0600, Chris Gordon wrote:
> I have a coworker who has a few extra computers at his church. He was
> asking me about putting linux on them to avoid the expensive licensing
> issues with windows. So my question is what distributions do you
> recommend? They mainly want to network them together, share a
> printer, browse internet, probably use open office, and at some point
> may consider an open source version to quicken. I guess the main
> requirements are soemthing that is easily installablie and
> configurable by someone who knows computers, has a basic knowledge of
> some unix commands, but has never installed/used linux before, as well
> as being usable by people who have used windows in the past without a
> big learning curve.
I found Ubuntu to work very well, and I would recommend trying
that first.
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Don Bindner < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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