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From: Wolfgang Fartbubble 
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Moog wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Download and burn the LiveCD image of Ubuntu.
> http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download?action=show&
edirect=download
> 
> Boot your PC from the CD and run Ubuntu. 
> 
> This way, you do not affect your current set up at all. You can then see for
> yourself how good it is. I think it's brilliant by the way. But that is
> just my opinion.
> 
> This will also mean you can see what hardware it picks up and doesn't. The
> majority of your hardware will just run. If not, there are some helpful
> people both here and ubuntu forums who can ease any hardware/software
> problems for you, should you decide to install fully.
> 
Thank you all to the answers about Ubuntu.

Downloading it now.

Mike.
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