Re: [Hampshire] thanks for the distro tips

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Author: John Cooper
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] thanks for the distro tips
On 14/04/10 14:13, Benjamin Ashton wrote:
> Thanks to all who gave me advice about what light-distro to pick for our
> ailing computer. In the end I opted for Zenwalk as it:
>
> a) ticked all the boxes
> b) had the word 'Zen' in it, which made my wife laugh as she is a zen
> student
> c) had a dolphin logo, which suited my son, who is still mourning the
> loss of the So'ton University logo.
>
> So, as you can see, I did it for all the right reasons (ahem!).
>
> Seriously though, it works beautifully and is much faster than XP and
> worked fine with the printer and scanner, despite them being Canon. So,
> apart from a few minor funnies (one of which: the @ and " keys are
> swapped over - is there any way, other than going through all possible
> keyboard layouts to correct this?). We are both really happy with it and
> I think that I might have converted someone to the Way of Linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>


Probably set to US instead of UK. Login and check
"System/Preferences/Keyboard". Some distros show the locale setting on
the logon screen so you can change there.



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