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On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:33:42 -0500, MM
  wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:15:57 +0000, Wolfgang Fartbubble wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> At the moment I am running Win XP pro,
>> I am thinking of going over to Ubuntu.
>> How good is it?
>> Are there many drivers for it?
>> My system is Athlon 1.67 Mhz, 512 DDR ram, 80Gig HDD.
>> 
>> At the moment I know nothing about Ubuntu or any part of Linux.
>> 
>> TIA.
>> 
>> Mike.
>
> I know nothing about Linux, that being said I was able to get both ubuntu
> and kubuntu up and running from the cd. Yes things work differently but
> with the support here and elsewhere you can do it. I used an extra hard
> drive to try it out first. So far I think I like kubuntu better, hard to
> say why. Dive in the waters warn and not that deep, now command line is
> another story. 8^)
>

I didn't know drives came in different hardness's.

Steven
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