[ILUG] My Aunt Tilly

[Ken Gilmour]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:37:41 +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
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> I'm more or less settled on SuSE 9.1 as the distribution, for the
> simple reason that I use it in a number of places, and I have media
> available. I'm open to persuasion as to a better distribution but
> to be honest, there'd have to be a pretty compelling reason. After
> all, this PC is going to run Mozilla (for web and email) and Open
> Office, and that is it - it hardly matters what distribution I use.
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Hi Niall,

We have a "Guest" network setup in our office here... The firewalls, DNS
servers etc are all running OpenBSD... and we have some floor boxes
where staff can bring in their laptops and plug them into the guest
network and do basically whatever they want without affecting the
production network.

Anyway, that's beside the point. We have one PC on the network for
people who want to do stuff and don't have a laptop... It's just a
crappy old Dell Dimension with 256MB RAM and 800MHz Processor. It runs
on Xandros Desktop 2 (Deluxe i think, we have all distros). The cool
thing about this distro is that the menu system on it is extremely well
laid out. For example, Instead of a user clicking "start" they click
"Launch" and instead of clicking "All Programs" They click
"Applications"... from there, all of the apps are perfectly arranged
with very little mess... you can find anything you want almost
immediately... Now the second cool thing about it is that all of the
hardware that i plugged into it was detected first time, even after
installation... even some stuff that windows required downloaded drivers
for was automatically installed on the system when plugged in.

The other cool thing is that it has "Crossover Office" (a paid version
of wine). I have successfully installed Internet Explorer, Adobe
Photoshop (7), and MS Office (XP) on a test system of exact same
configuration... They run, perfectly :)

So anyway... i won't keep writing my endless praises of the Operating
system because i don't want to bore you but i would tell you, it's
definately worth at least trying out :-)

Thanks

Ken