On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 16:25 +0000, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 02:08pm on Friday, November 28, 2008 (UK time), Linuxguy123 scrawled: > > > My friend's laptop died. She needs to reinstall XP but she has lost her > > install disks and the XP install disks we have tried thus far don't work > > for her machine. > > > > I like F10 so much I am thinking of recommending it for her machine. > > I'd like to send her a USB flash drive with F10 on it that she could try > > on her machine. > > If your friend is not particularly "into computers and maintain them" > then I suggest you try a different distro from Fedora, so that she won't > need to upgrade to a new version every year. Something like CentOS or > Ubuntu would be better I would think. If it were me I would use CentOS > - I use it on my servers and its configuration is similar to Fedora. > However lots of people who want there PC to just work like Ubuntu > (including my son and his girlfriend). > > BTW, I have used Fedora, and RH before it on my primary workstation. > But I enjoy playing with it. > > Steve Thanks for the tip. I've been using RH/ Fedora for 6 years now, so I am well aware of their "character". One of the reasons I'll be recommending it is that I'll continue to use it and I can remotely administer her system, so whatever I do for my system I will also do for hers. I don't want to have to be knowledgeable in 2 different releases. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines