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spud17

I was just going to have a look, it's eye candy really.
£30, that's almost as I've spent on my whole setup.
I'll try Freecycle, but in this area, no matter how tatty, it is gone instantly, but then recently someone was asking for a laptop with either XP or Vista.

diveleader

Tried lots of linux distros... knoppix Mandriva DSL Puppy.
Can anyone give me guidance as to cross platform compatibilty (Windoze / Linux/ Mac) with doc files with tables? it seems that only windoze seems to carry forward formating.
It seems that a word file with tables gets screwed up from platform to platform

DCFC79

Is there a list of what equivalent for msn there is for puppy like there is for ubuntu eg for msn the equivalent is pidgin or amsn or would they work on puppy linux, is puppy good one to use for a starter for linux

fwor

DCFC79 wrote: »

Is there a list of what equivalent for msn there is for puppy like there is for ubuntu eg for msn the equivalent is pidgin or amsn or would they work on puppy linux, is puppy good one to use for a starter for linux

You can see which packages come as standard with the Puppy ISO image here:

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy

Seems that pidgin is there by default.

I believe that you can also install pretty much anything in the (very comprehensive) Slackware repositories onto Puppy, so it would be worth looking there if you want something that's not in the standard Puppy repo.

IMO it's not great as a starter distro to learn on, as it's deliberately "cut down" to fit in small spaces. Better to start with Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu or something like Mint - which I've tried and like the look of.

fwor

diveleader wrote: »

Can anyone give me guidance as to cross platform compatibilty (Windoze / Linux/ Mac) with doc files with tables? it seems that only windoze seems to carry forward formating.
It seems that a word file with tables gets screwed up from platform to platform

Have you tried a recent version of OpenOffice? I've edited lots of docs with tables in that were originally created in Word, and the results have been very consistent.

However if you have complex formatting, I think you have to expect to do some reworking - it just seems to be a fact of life...

DCFC79

fwor wrote: »

IMO it's not great as a starter distro to learn on, as it's deliberately "cut down" to fit in small spaces. Better to start with Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu or something like Mint - which I've tried and like the look of.

do i need to do anything before i burn linux mint to a cd

spud17

do i need to do anything before i burn linux mint to a cd[/QUOTE

I use ImgBurn to burn the .iso file. I've found it to be the most reliable program, make sure you burn at 1x to avoid errors.

Also make sure you're O.K. with booting from CD.

Just run it as a Live CD while you play around.

Linbox

My graphics card is a Nvidia 5200 which runs Compiz (Hollywood's got nothing) with no problems on Mint 5 using the Nvidia drivers.

DCFC79

spud17 wrote: »

do i need to do anything before i burn linux mint to a cd[/QUOTE

I use ImgBurn to burn the .iso file. I've found it to be the most reliable program, make sure you burn at 1x to avoid errors.

Also make sure you're O.K. with booting from CD.

Just run it as a Live CD while you play around.

dont i need to do a checksum with it

fwor

DCFC79 wrote: »

dont i need to do a checksum with it

You can, but you don't need to if you trust the source that you are downloading from.

You can check the integrity of what you've downloaded by burning it to CD, running it as a LiveCD and choosing the "Check CD for errors" (or words to that effect) option.