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Originally Posted by Gareth
We should really fork this question into its own new thread, but here goes anyway...
From your criteria above, I think you should give Ubuntu a whirl (or Kubuntu - the same distro but using the prettier KDE desktop manager). It uses the Debian APT package management which is nice and easy to use - no dependency hell any more - and if you use Synaptic it's got a good GUI front end, although the apt command is straight forward enough anyway.
The advantage over other distros is that the packages seem to be updated more frequently - esp compared to Debian, which it's based on.
Check out the docs - https://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/deskt...e/C/index.html [ubuntu.com] - and see if you think you could get by with it. Then either download it for free or request they send you the latest DVD (also for free  ).
HTH |
used it before, cant remember why i stoped, think there was something that i couldnt get working with it.
might try the latest version and see if its any better.
With regards to my uncles pc i'll probably stick kerio and avast on it.
Also im going to replace his harddrives with a single 40gb 5400rpm drive ive got laying around
Perticuarly as the 10gb one is ata 33, not sure of the rotational speed but its rather slow to say the least.
Also going to replace his NIC with a Belkin one ive got spare (his is a 3com but i think its only 10mbit
)
His pc was pretty much made out of spare/scavinged parts so it has a bit of an odd spec (it has an ISA sb16 board in there if i remember rightly
)