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From: Joe LaVigne 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Ubuntu
Date: 6 Mar 2007 23:29:34 GMT
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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.

Download the Ubuntu live cd, boot from it, and try it for yourself.  If it
runs and sees all of your equipment from the CD boot, it will install and
boot flawlessly for you.  Otherwise, look around the net to see if there
are drivers for the devices that you find are not supported in the distro.
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