Re: Appeal for help
Paiato Matteo <mpaiato-/[email protected]> Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:40:46 +0800
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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... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> blug-tech list >> [email protected] >> http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-tech > > > > Regards, > > Graham Brown > > _______________________________________________ > blug-tech list > [email protected] > http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-tech > _______________________________________________ blug-tech list [email protected] http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-tech