Friends afraid of Linux?

[Timothy Payne]

I'll look at it but the point was, it can be used without touching
anything they have installed.  Even though with a win98 disk and the
command fdisk /mbr they can reinstall windows.  With knoppix they don't
even do that.  The hard drive is left untouched, so it's a zero risk
try.  I hear "but my windows programs"  If you need them, like I do
spend $50 for another hard drive and you can have anything you want on
the win drive.

Tim...

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 23:12, Brian Chase wrote:
> I've tried alot of distro's, and my favorite by far for desktop distro's 
> for newbies would be Mepis Linux, check it out, it's like Knoppix, but 
> even easier to install to hard drive and more GUI administration tools.
> 
> 
> Timothy Payne wrote:
> 
> >Some one told me about www.knoppix.org the guy made a CD that will boot
> >to KDE and not touch the hard drive.  They suggest 128 MB of ram as it
> >only runs off of the CD and has to run in memory.  You can run it with
> >less memory but check the site to see how.
> >
> >I downloaded the ISO and burned a CD, and it seemed to find everything
> >on my machine.  I never thought it would make it through my firewall but
> >I could just hop on the net or use open office.  A little slow, but hey
> >your working off the CD drive.
> >
> >Now you can say "see Linux ain't so bad as Microsoft said"
> >
> >And when you are done all you need to do is shut down and remove the CD
> >and reboot to what ever is on the hard drive.
> >
> >Now when FC3 comes out they'll want it installed on their machine.
> >
> >Tim... 
> >
> >  
> >