Re: Appeal for help

Paiato Matteo <mpaiato-/[email protected]> Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:40:46 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.beijing.tech
Message-ID <2C24A35E-7340-11D8-A3A0-000A95AD1320__30462.2381031097$1078998145@yahoo.com>
Knoppix and Mandrake 9.2 available here.


On Mar 11, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Graham Brown wrote:

> Mathew,
>
> I (and others) could also provide you with a Knoppix disk too.
>
> That might be a good way to start.
>
> At 03:59 PM 11/03/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>> Dear Linux People,
>>
>> I am considering switching to Linux and as I live in Beijing, this 
>> list
>> seems an obvious place to start (I was alerted to your existence by 
>> the ad
>> in 'That's Beijing' magazine).
>>
>> To begin with, does anyone know a supplier of cheap, legal, 
>> English-language
>> Linux in BJ? I don't have a CD-writer & therefore downloads are 
>> useless.
>> I realize that this is a very basic question, but I need to begin 
>> somewhere!
>> Please accept my apologies if you have just covered this ground in 
>> your
>> 'Install Fest', but I only accessed the website today.
>>
>> A second and rather optimistic request: would you be willing to help 
>> me set
>> up a Linux installation in English? If so, read below* for more 
>> details.
>>
>> Many thanks for your help,
>>
>> Matt Forrester
>>
>> *Last year, I bought a Chinese desktop PC. I asked the company to 
>> install
>> TurboLinux, but they installed illegal Windows XP. I am looking for 
>> someone
>> who knows Linux to help me move to an easy version of Linux, and the 
>> other
>> software I need to use: basically OpenOffice, Netscape and some 
>> multimedia
>> players. I have more than ten years' experience of DOS/Windows 
>> systems (and
>> a little Unix at my last university), but my last attempt to install 
>> Corel
>> Linux failed. I can't afford to pay commercial prices for this (I'm a
>> university teacher), but I would be happy to take you to a 
>> hotpot/minority
>> restaurant afterwards...
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Graham Brown
>
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