[TriLUG] Install - ThinkPad T20

[Cristobal Palmer]

Have you not used Linux before? If you haven't, go with Ubuntu. There are 
things you will find irksome, but they are easily changed (especially if you 
ask on #trilug on irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net>), and Ubuntu is 
very nice to teh noob.

Let us know what you install and how it performs.

Cheers,

CMP

On 7/19/05, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you dont mind using Fluxbox, DSL is a darn-good distro to use.
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
> 
> It has everything that you want, and any other packages can be added to it
> easily.
> 
> On 7/19/05, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu <crimsun at fungus.sh.nu> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:38:00PM -0400, Alan Porter wrote:
> > > I'm like you, I can't stand it. So the first thing I do on a
> > > Ubuntu system is "sudo bash" and then "passwd root". Then it'll
> > > be just like what you were expecting, more like Debian, Red Hat,
> > > etc.
> >
> > The Debian installer accepts a blank root password as indication that
> > the user wants to use sudo (which is the setting that Ubuntu uses) and
> > disables the root account. You could always choose "go back" and enter
> > a password during the install (be it the express or the expert mode).
> >
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Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student
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