weathercam - 8:22 am on Nov 20, 2008 (gmt 0)

Me too - did it last weekend - very sweet, surprised that it came with all the open office software & other stuff as well - how to liven up an old PC!

Downloaded the 8.04 torrent, then burnt the ISO image, cleaned windows off the PC and straight install, took quite some time, and was surprised as to how much disk space it took, but at that time did not realise it was loading all the additional application software - no problems with network, sound, display drivers etc

I must admit to having thought Linux to be very geeky / techy - I had no idea what all the various distros were, in fact didn't even understand what a distro was............in fact they are just different versions of Linux, some with more bells and whistles than others, pretty pictures and design etc (non techie perspective).

I thought there had to be more to Linux as all the new netbooks are being shipped with it, further research showed that Dell are thinking about offering it as an OS with laptops.

So having installed it, I'm impressed, comes with all the open office programmes, that is word, excel etc and quite a complex graphics programme - interesting that Adobe are coming under pressure to do a Linux version of Photoshop.

Now all the above was on a very old Dell deskstop 4gig hard disk & 512ram - next move is to load on to my 4 year old lap top and run virtual box so I can use windose progs eg Photoshop & Premiere - have heard about wine but VB sounds better - any comments ?