Friends afraid of Linux?

[Brian Chase]

Mepis is also a live CD and offers the option of installing to hard 
disk, a much better interface for it.

Timothy Payne wrote:

>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.
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>Tim...
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>On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 23:12, Brian Chase wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Timothy Payne wrote:
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>>>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"
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>>>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... 
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