As some of you will remember I have used many flavors of Linux and find some LIVE disks easier to use than others. For example: Some LIVE disks downloaded as English automatically load in English, look at the hard ware and load to a live desktop. (I use English as one of many choices, only, because I use it. French, German, Japanese could be substituted for English.) All you do is start the computer and wait for a desktop to load. As a sample disk this would eliminate the problem of having to make any choices and the new user, especially, could be allowed to have a running system without any intervention on their part. What am I skipping? License acceptance, language choice, keyboard choice, etc... If they want to install from the live disk, which I believe to be the best version to use BECAUSE it has proprietary drivers for many non FOSS cards and chipsets, they then accept the license, choose language, keyboard etc...
Easy is best, don't you think?
I mention this because I have a Lenovo G570 and the LIVE disk loads and works fine after I make all the selections for choice. I also tried a ThinkPad T-23 and it gets to the section about language choice and I cannot get farther than that because of a corrupt video screen not allowing me to make all the correct choices to get to a running desktop. If these intermediate steps were not there then perhaps I could get a running desktop with that laptop. It uses SAVAGE S-3 chipset from SIS. The Lenovo uses Intel video chips. I am using the latest LIVE Cauldron test disk for this, Alpha 3?
Just a suggestion for discussion...
Cheers,
gcd
