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From: James C
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:16

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On 20/04/08 12:17, John Phillips wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2008 02:11:48 GMT Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Most people recommed Ubuntu for people swapping from Windows,

Ubuntu is very good, IMHO, but the default install is quite large,
which may be a problem for Graeme's "low spec" PC.

Wubi (http://wubi-installer.org/) looks like a simple way
to get a taste of Ubuntu on a Windows machine.

> Thought there are issues with latest [Ubuntu] distro?

The most recent "production" version is 7.10 (= 2007 October).
Version 8.04 (= 2008 April) is about to supersede that,
but installs Firefox 3 Beta instead of Firefox 2.x
according to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/804rc
(which is a problem if you use Firefox add-ons that
don't work yet with FF3).

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