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On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:33 +0100, Vivi Griffin wrote: > I would have suggested Mint to Gary which I love but, I second that - loaded it up on a ho hum tryout this basis on the (old) laptop and got hooked with its style, presentation, and the way that everything that had me fiddling around with media codecs etc. on the command line (which I am not too knowledgeable about) "just worked". Now the whole family has been converted from Suse, with a lot of Ubuntu Studio stuff added in for the kids to play at picture and sound and film editing. I am also loading up freecycle donation type old computers with either the standard gnome Mint or the XFCE variant for slower kit, and have had surprised comments from the recipients of these old freebies about how it just was simply obvious to use, even tho they had been expecting windows (which would not have been licenced and in the case of w98/ME has no updates or security anymore, and XP would crawl on most this old kit where XFCE is quite useable with low memory and cpu power - alas xfce is still only available for the last version of Mint based on ubby 7.10 (I think) not the current one based on 8.04 last time I looked, but that was couple of months back so they may have spun it now for the 8.04 ubuntu base). For the first time I'm so impressed that I'm probably going to make an online donation to the project. Mint is a release variant that deserves to win a major % of "ordinary real world non geek" linux users. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html