[olug] Best Cd-rom bootable cd-rom demo linux

[Adam Lassek]

This would be good if they decide they want to play around with it more,
demolinux would be best for a first look around. I remember my first
actual linux install was a umsdos version of slackware that I installed
alongside windows. Not something I would recommend though :-/

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 21:43, Paul T. McNally wrote:
> Buy a cheapy machine and load Linux on it. Even brand new hardware is
> ridiculousy cheap. One of the first thing a sharp newbie will notice is how
> much better Linux runs on a cheap machine than Windows ** does.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Grothe" <grothe at earthlink.net>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 9:41 PM
> Subject: [olug] Best Cd-rom bootable cd-rom demo linux
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> People are asking me about how to try out linux without "screwing up" their
> computer. I've always recommended these people just give demolinux
> http://www.demolinux.org a spin.  Demo seems to work pretty well and with
> the latest 3.0 version it is mandrake (7.x) based.
> 
> Is there a better/different choice that I should check out?  I've heard some
> good things about knoppix http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html (not
> sure if it is debian or redhat based) and SUSE http://www.suse.com always
> has the live-eval cd-roms.  Slack http://www.slackware.com gives you a live
> cd-rom version in the slackware boxed set.  Ideally what I'm looking for is
> a version that is the same for the demo cd-rom as the version they would
> install on their machine, so I'm going to be giving SUSE live-eval another
> try here now that 8.0 is out.
> 
> I haven't tried runoncd (which I haven't tried as I don't read/write
> korean).  There were a couple of other cd-rom distros out there but most of
> them have appeared to gone to that great /dev/null in the sky.
> 
> Any thoughts, feedback, suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Aaron
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