I would also consider mint, as it is ubuntu without the hassle of hunting down proprietary codecs, etc. I have used their live cd and it works well. It is yet another flavor but well done and set up a bit more like a windows machine would be. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: "Tim Wescott" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:50:29 To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;civil and on-topic<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Live CD List Personally, I would hand her an Ubuntu disk, because I know it would have a good chance of making her happy, and it would require the least work on her part to get to the point of looking at a live Linux screen. The list looks like a great thing if you're looking for the best disk to hand her -- but I wouldn't just send a link and leave her on her own; I'd engage in some evangelicalism. I would hand her an Ubuntu disk because (a) I use Ubuntu, and I can vouch for it being a very good distro for the recovering Windows user, (b) it has a friendly little "install me now" button right there on the desktop, and (c) I've used the live CD and it always works. The _only_ other Live CD distros I've used are Knoppix (which I like, but is really made to _only_ be a live CD distro) and DSL (which is cute, and worked well for me when I needed a distro I could put on a 256k USB stick, but is _small_). So I can't call myself an expert on live CD distributions. On Fri, October 2, 2009 7:19 am, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > I'm going to offer a Live CD to a coworker who lamented having to use > Vista. She mentioned having worked for Lucent, knew about Unix, but > hadn't heard of BSD or Linux. Before starting this e-mail I thought I'd > ask for recommendations on where to find a list of live cds. I continued > that line of thought and "heard" from several of you that Google would > be my friend. Indeed it was. I Googled and found, > > http://www.livecdlist.com/ > > Have any of you used this list? Do you know of any gotchas or > hesitations I should be aware of before pointing my friend in this > direction? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > www.dicksteffens.com > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Tim Wescott Control systems and communications consulting http://www.wescottdesign.com Land line: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
