I have been really pleased with Ubuntu but if it is old hardware that you are running this on or just some light powered applications, why not try out Kbuntu. <font size="-1"><span class="a"><a href="http://www.kubuntu.org">
www.kubuntu.org</a></span></font><br><br>We are going to have a hands on play with some of these at the VITTA conference.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">
WEIR Andrew</b> <<a href="mailto:WEIR@thomascarr.vic.edu.au">WEIR@thomascarr.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Apologise for the off topic post but I wanted to ask a few opinions.<br><br>I am reinstalling a few pc's for novice users and due to cost and<br>licenses want to use open source.<br>What is the easiest flavour of Linux to use for this purpose?
<br><br>Personally I like ubuntu but I have thought about suse,lindows and a few<br>others.<br><br>These computers only require internet and email with some word<br>processing access so that's not the issue I just wanted the most simple
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