This is specific for the Fredericton group... but all opinions welcome

[Andrew Mathenge]

I agree. Freespire 2.0 is worth looking into. CNR is nice and easy to use.

Andrew.

On 10/27/07, Brent <brent-hughes at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Joel Goguen wrote:
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> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:55 -0400, Andrew Mathenge wrote:
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>  Are you thinking of building a custom machine as an alternative to
> Vista for your customers? If so, you'd need to do more than just an
> operating system build. Most users don't really care about the
> operating system, it's the applications and installing them in Windows
> is fairly easy, while finding them and installing them and using them
> in Linux can sometimes be a challenge. Just check out the Ubuntu
> support forums.
>
>  The alternate CD install provides an OEM option which I've used before.
> It works rather well for getting common applications installed and
> setting things up that typically require a command line.  The Ubuntu
> forums would be a great place to start looking to see what applications
> we should have pre-installed.
>
>    Try Freespire 2.0, just released. Most common apps pre load with install
> so email, wp, spreadsheet and presentation are all there. Pl;us plays all
> multimedia right out of the box, so to speak, and you can use the Click N
> Run o n line software repository to load and unload other apps. Have put it
> on a PIII 450 and an older Dell PIV without any problems or issues.  Picked
> up all cards with the exception of my DLink wireless but I've never had any
> version pick up this card. Very nice improvement from earlier versions,
> worth  a look.
>
> Brent
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