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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:21 PM

One simple question and no IFS, ANDS, or BUTS.

I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.

It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:21 PM

Dan Quinn wrote:

> One simple question and no IFS, ANDS, or BUTS.
>
> I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
>
> It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan

Since you want to pay, that pretty well limits you to Xandros . . . or
Mandrake . . . or Linspire . . . or Suse . . . or . . . I haven't used an
"if" or an "and" or a "but" yet. How'm I doin' so far?-)

As you just want to try it, I suggest a live CD like Knoppix, which you can
run off the CD.

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:21 PM

In comp.os.linux.setup, Dan Quinn uttered these immortal words:

> One simple question and no IFS, ANDS, or BUTS.
>
> I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
>
> It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan

That's an impossible question to answer. There are loads of general,
mainstream Linux distros, most of them available for free download. They
all have essentially the same software for email and www. Being more
specific here gets you better answers.

Asking this question will just get you a list of the distros we use. For
example, I use Debian but recommend Mandrake to newbies and have version 10
as an option with Debian on this dual-boot system.

Look here for descriptions of a large number of distros:
http://www.distrowatch.com

--
Andy.

#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:21 PM

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:18:17 -0700, Dan Quinn wrote:

> One simple question and no IFS, ANDS, or BUTS.
>
> I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
>
> It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan

Please clarify. Are you looking for a brand new system that comes with
Linux pre-installed? If so, try Walmart for starters.

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#5 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:21 PM

wesley wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:18:17 -0700, Dan Quinn wrote:
>
>> One simple question and no IFS, ANDS, or BUTS.
>>
>> I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
>>
>> It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan
>
> Please clarify. Are you looking for a brand new system that comes with
> Linux pre-installed? If so, try Walmart for starters.

Aw, jeez, I never thought of that!

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#6 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:22 PM

RE: wesley <w_olandat@yahoodot.com> wrote
>
>Dan Quinn wrote
> >
> > I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
> >
> > It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan
>
> Please clarify. Are you looking for a brand new system that comes with
> Linux pre-installed? If so, try Walmart for starters.
>

I suppose a machine with installed software would be the way to
go. Who carries a well integrated system?
Years ago I did some programing in Cobal, C, Assembly, and Basic.
How about Forth? Anybody still using that?
There are several on the WWW who offer systems. I thought a
recommendation in order. Dan

#7 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:22 PM

Dan Quinn <dan.c.quinn@att.net> wrote:
> RE: wesley <w_olandat@yahoodot.com> wrote
>>
>>Dan Quinn wrote
>> >
>> > I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
>> >
>> > It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan
>>
>> Please clarify. Are you looking for a brand new system that comes with
>> Linux pre-installed? If so, try Walmart for starters.
>>

> I suppose a machine with installed software would be the way to
> go. Who carries a well integrated system?
> Years ago I did some programing in Cobal, C, Assembly, and Basic.
> How about Forth? Anybody still using that?

Well... There's C, assembly, BASIC, fortran and forth on almost every linux
distro (to name but a few), I dunno about cobol though.
So it looks like some people still dabble in forth (otherwise, the forth
compiler wouldn't still be updated)

#8 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:22 PM

Dan Quinn wrote:
> One simple question and no IFS, ANDS, or BUTS.
>
> I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
>
> It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan
One simple answer --- Debian.

It is good at e-mail and www.

for more info www.debian.org You might also be interested in
http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/

raju

#9 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:22 PM

RE: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu> wrote
>
> Dan Quinn wrote:
>
> > One simple question.
> >
> > I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
> >
> > It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan
>

>
> One simple answer --- Debian. It is good at e-mail and www.
>
> for more info www.debian.org You might also be interested in
> http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ raju
>

OK Debian. How about some machinery? I will shop for a
computer with Debian installed. So far I've seen no computer
firms recommended. Dan

#10 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 07:22 PM

Dan Quinn wrote:

> RE: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu> wrote
>>
>> Dan Quinn wrote:
>>
>> > One simple question.
>> >
>> > I'd like to try a Linux System and wish to buy one that works.
>> >
>> > It must be good at e-mail and www. Who should I shop? Dan
>>
>
>>
>> One simple answer --- Debian. It is good at e-mail and www.
>>
>> for more info www.debian.org You might also be interested in
>> http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ raju
>>
>
> OK Debian. How about some machinery? I will shop for a
> computer with Debian installed. So far I've seen no computer
> firms recommended. Dan

Okay, so you're looking for computers with Linux pre-installed. As Wesley
said, you could try Wal-Mart. Or you could google "linux pre-installed"
and come up with this, among many others.
http://www.linux.org/docs/beginner/preinstalled.html

Maybe someone here will be able to comment on whatever you find.

Good hunting.

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