Re: [tlug] Free Linux for Desktop Newbies ?

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Jonathan Q wrote:

>>[NK] only used it a little bit by myself but i heard a lot of good stuff
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>>from friends about it:
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>>Ubuntu should do it
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>I'll throw my endorsement of Ubuntu in here (or Kubuntu, if you prefer
>KDE).  I first tried it when it was still in beta leading up to Warty
>(4.10) and by the time Hoary (5.4) was released, I had replaced all of
>my Debian Sarge and Sid installs with Kubuntu.  It really won me over,
>as it has a lot of others.  It's Ubuntu's first stable release was
>only in October of 2004, and the first public beta was not long before
>that.  In a pretty short period of time, it has gone from being the new
>kid on the block to one of the most popular distros out there.  IMO that
>popularity is well-justified.
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I like KDE myself - what does Ubuntu use then? Gnome, or some other GUI?
I downloaded Kubuntu... and am thinking of trying it out on an old
200MHz DEC computer I have with a 3GB HDD and 256MB. Is that enough?

Lyle