On Tue, 28 May 2002, Allan Bruce wrote:

> Ok, a good debate for everyone.

/monkey puts on his hard hat ;)

> Since I now have ADSL and the net is my oyster so to speak.  I have lots of
> bandwidth needing wasted so I am thinking about downloading an alternate
> distro.

If wasting bandwidth is your game I would suggesting having a bash on
debian. There is nothing quite like installing an OS over the internet.

> What does everyone think is the best pros and cons.  What I personally would
> like is something that will allow me to play 3d games on my geforce2mx and
> the other usual stuff - officy things, cdburning etc.

Umm - I dunno about the games though, however all the other ususal stuff
is there - KOffice and the GNOME stuff as well

> btw - has anyone checked out openoffice? It seems pretty good.  Just
> downloaded it and about to install, get it at www.openoffice.org

Yup - it kills my Win2K box dead and hangs the laptop on the install :(

Guess i'll be using abiword for a while yet

Cheers

Monkey

> Thanks
> Allan
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