Ubuntu user's report

[Tom Wilson]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 08:43, Matthew Carpenter wrote: 
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> Hi Myles,
> Thanks for the *great* cheerleading session.  This distro has been a big
> question-mark for me for a while (and I've yet to receive the free discs
> from Canonical, probably having to do with shipping from South Africa?).
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> I am *not* an old Debian user.  I have never installed, Potato, Woody,
> or BoPeep (that's the sexy-version).  I have not even successfully
> installed Apt-RPM mainly because of dependencies :)
> For one about to try out Ubuntu and Mepis, and one wishing to become
> APT/.deb friendly, what are some of the sources you would recommend?  Is
> the GUI packager friendly enough to allow simple browsing through
> available packages?
> 
> I'm always on the lookout for other worthy distros, and to land one in
> the Debian lineage would be a bonus.  As an evangelist attempting to
> stay on the pulse of the Linux Desktop useability front I am of course
> interested in what my parents would think of a distro.  So far, I've
> only ever been able to recommend SuSE for this (since the death of
> eDesktop/eWorkstation, RIP).
> 
> Starting off with additional source lists to play with would simplify
> value-determination :)
> 
> Thanks again, Myles.  This was good to hear.

**Sorry is this is sent twice.  Evolution crashed when I hit send.  Go
figure.**

I would try Mepis.  Very noob friendly and is KDE-centric.  I believe
you said you are a KDE fan.  I use it on my laptop and it is great.  It
is also a live CD so you can do the whole try before you install it
thing.  

I'm going to stick my brother on it as the ultimate test.  He can't
navigate around windoze and is pretty computer ignorant.  This should be
a good ease of use test.

Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x4433 
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