Thanks for the info Patrick, It's the first time i've heard of a distro asking for a donation too, though $10 really isn't that much I had mixed feelings about the approach too. That said, I guess it's a good way to get some contribution from people, I always intend on giving donations to the projects I use but more often than not i just never get around to it. (I hope that the simple merchandise I do buy goes to the project somehow though)
John that's a good idea to get it booting on a USB, You could trying reading stuff here http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ or unetbootin to get that happening. I guess the main things you've got to worry about are going to be VGA cards and printers. Maybe webcams too I don't know. These days if you do your research in advance and buy the right product then lots of this stuff can be simply plug and play - I know my Logitech webcam was but my Brother printer sure as hell wasn't! On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:26 AM, John Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guyz > Thanks for the feedback...yes I will be setting up printing and I > downloaded a copy of mint from TAFE...I did as well look at E Live as it was > in the same article that I read in APC Mag...I'll be starting my try outs > later in the week. > > No I've yet to do research on the hardware and if it'll work with Linux, my > approach was to put the distro's on flash drives and try it out and see what > happens. > > What do you suggest Mike? > > Yours in Wellness > John Nielsen CEO > BAMedia > Wellness Marketing and Event Management > > ABN 32 710 132 20 > [email protected] > > + 61 (0) 449 065 729 (Vodafone Cell Phone) > > ICQ 70972773 > Skype fuzzy8561 > > Excellence in Service Provision > > www.awareconnections.com > > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:34, elliott-brennan > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> Linuxmint is dead simple. All the additional bits and pieces are installed >> at, well, install. I think all the major 'nix's are easy to use and install, >> it's really just multimedia and other bits that some people have trouble >> with. Mint makes this a non-issue, as do Mepis and others (names not readily >> available to my mind this early in the morning). >> >> Regards, >> >> Patrick >> >> >> John wrote: >> >> >> >>> Subject: [SLUG] Newbie alert and Community Net cafe >>> Hi all >>> >>> >>> First of all I need recommendations on what would be good and simple to >>> use for the average end user, I've been looking at >>> http://www.linuxmint.com/ and and then https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntuhas >>> been recommended by a friend of mine. >>> >>> >>> >> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
