> Knoppix?
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand.  Is that a Live CD only?

More or less, yes.

I don't think you want to teach on a live system, too slow, you want
them to install something. It's only good for showing how different
Linux can look, and for having a peek at a different distro.

> Personally I'm favouring Mandrake because I know it will patition up the 
> disk with Windows nicely.

Bad reason, all others do too.

> Ubuntu also seems to be a good plan because more of us are using it and 
> we already give them live cd's.

I had a look at ubuntu, and its featureless non-existant gnome stuff
drove me bananas in 10 minutes. It's also somewhat outdated. If you're
looking for something which looks a tad similar to mswindows, which is a
good idea if you want to shift someone or take it easy at first, forget
about ubuntu because it plain isn't. I didn't look at kubuntu yet.

Don't discount SUSE though, it's very good for beginners. Has a live
CD/DVD too. The 10.1 demo is in a fortnight, perhaps it's of interest to
the schools too.

Volker

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