Hi Brad,

Some five weeks after the formal release of Mandriva Linux 2006 to members of
the Mandriva Club, the CD and DVD images of the "Free" edition (i.e. containing
Free Software only) are now available for free download. Mandriva Linux 2006 is
built on top of the Linux kernel 2.6.12 and includes a development version of
the X.Org X window system (version 6.9), together with the two most popular
desktop environments - KDE (3.4.2) and GNOME (2.10.1), as well as the usual
range of desktop and server software. For more info see this:

http://frontal2.mandriva.com/en/individuals/products/2006overview

Good early reviews of the distro have been published by Linux.com
(http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/27/1855241) and The Jem Report
(http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/191/41/).


The ISO images of the distro are currently in the process of propagating to
Mandriva mirrors world-wide; here is a quick link to the DVD image for the i586
architecture -Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-DVD.i586.iso (2,088MB,):

http://frontal2.mandriva.com/en/individuals/products/2006overview

CD images for i586 and x86_64 processors, as well as Mandriva "Mini" and
Mandriva "Live" are also available for download.

Brad, I am sure, your friend will love it as much as we all have loved this
great, simple yet powerful distro so very much. And I am cent percent sure that
any newbie can install it without much struggle, if they understand the disk
partitioning concept. Feel free if any more help is required.

Cheers,
-Tarun


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Stone" <bmestone@...>
To: SunCityJodhpurLUG@...
Subject: Re: [SunnyLUG] Digest Number 534
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:37:08 +0000

>
> Hey all,
> A friend of mine is really sick of her Windows getting hacked and being
> totally spywared out! (From what I can tell it is really bad!) When I
> suggested Linux she said it's too complicated, and... well obviously she's
> wrong! I've been using Mandriva for nearly a year now and it's much nicer to
> use than windows! So, in short, I want to make a convert of her!
>
> Does anyone here have a link to a nice noobie-friendly free linux distro
> that I could give her? It's needs to be quite self-explanatory, as she's
> only moderately skilled with computers, and I can't offer her much support
> (she lives a long way away). Any number one distros? Any recommendations or
> advice? Even a link to the latest (free) version of Mandriva would be
> appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance to the ever-friendly Sunny LUG!
> Brad



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