Reg wrote:
Well I just tried again to install Suse on my Celeron 333 and it hangs
completely when it gets to the point of checking for hardware.
I like Suse as it's nice and graphical, but how does this lighter Free BSD
compare to it? I ean is it all text and command based or is nice and pretty
like Suse :-) ?
It has GNOME & is therefore like a lighter Ubuntu - simple, graphical,
functional. To get OOo in though (for your wife), you'd want the latter
- which is easier to run on low-spec boxes than anything with KDE.
FreeBSD might have just a few too many tricks to it for a newbie. IIRC,
both are just fine with USB stuff tho. Try Ubuntu next? - have disk,
will travel..
cheers
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