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[klug] newby help please!

Nathan Cook nathan at coast-computers.co.nz
Mon Aug 29 11:33:45 NZST 2005


I'll grab a copy of that please, sick of having to change the CD all the
time ;)

I'll just bring my portable drive and copy the ISO to that so I don't have
to burn a copy.

> hey,
>     I also use Suse9.3 pro and it is the best dist I have used yet
> I can bring a dvd single disk copy on thursday if ya want
> and you can run a copy
>
> Ben
> :-)
>
>> Hi Terry and welcome to KLUG :)
>>
>> I've been using SuSE 9.3 for a few weeks now and have found it to be
>> one of the best distros to use and very easy to set up. Features
>> include KDE 3.4 , and Open Office 2.0 (Pre).
>>
>> A link to download it from is here:
>> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/iso/ 5 CDs in all, if you
>> want to come along to the next LUG meeting you can bring some disks
>> and I can burn off the disks I have, my 5th ISO is corrupt though but
>> you can still get it installed without, there is also a live disk as
>> well for you to use and evaluate from.
>>
>> There's plenty of support around for it as well.
>>
>> More info on SuSE can be found here at www.suse.com
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>> On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:12, Terry Bicknell wrote:
>> > Good Day Group Members,
>> > I have just  joined the group and wish to extend my activity with
>> Linux. However I have hit my first hurdle, that of selecting and
>> downloading a copy for regular use.  I tried Knoppix which a member
>> gave me last year and found it very good , However I guess that
>> there are many
>> > improvements since. I have looked at a number of websites and found
>> it quite confusing  when trying to digest the attributes of each. So
>> would one of you experienced users offer me some of your wisdom? Q'
>> Which distro is best for a new user (considerable experience in Dos
>> and Win - not  agreeny.)
>> > Q  Partitioning - My hdd is partitioned at present but I think it
>> was done with dos and is probably not sutable - so what do I need
>> there NTFS or fat32 or??
>> > Q In respect of distributions, which site is the most
>> straightforward to download from?
>> > Regards  to all
>> > Terry
>> >
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