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   From: Steven Wayne    
   Subject: Re: Ubuntu   
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   On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:33:42 -0500, MM   
     wrote:   
   > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:15:57 +0000, Wolfgang Fartbubble wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi all,   
   >> At the moment I am running Win XP pro,   
   >> I am thinking of going over to Ubuntu.   
   >> How good is it?   
   >> Are there many drivers for it?   
   >> My system is Athlon 1.67 Mhz, 512 DDR ram, 80Gig HDD.   
   >>    
   >> At the moment I know nothing about Ubuntu or any part of Linux.   
   >>    
   >> TIA.   
   >>    
   >> Mike.   
   >   
   > I know nothing about Linux, that being said I was able to get both ubuntu   
   > and kubuntu up and running from the cd. Yes things work differently but   
   > with the support here and elsewhere you can do it. I used an extra hard   
   > drive to try it out first. So far I think I like kubuntu better, hard to   
   > say why. Dive in the waters warn and not that deep, now command line is   
   > another story. 8^)   
   >   
      
   I didn't know drives came in different hardness's.   
      
   Steven   
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