My flyer *aimed at windows users* Please, make my english more friendly, it have to please non technicals current users :-) text below: I have a computer ! I switch to GNU/Linux ! You deserve the better ! Freedom at no cost ! Free software and GNU/Linux are for you, What is GNU/Linux? Don't worry if the vocabulary seems a bit strange , you will quickly be familiar with it. You will find at the end of this document addresses of groups ready to help you for free. Go see them before spending your money in courses. The name « Linux » is no more, to speak simply, than that of the "kernel" that allows you to use the hardware installed in your computer. It's always associated with the GNU tools, that allows the day to day management of your PC, that's why we often speak of "GNU/Linux". For a personal use, it's always associated win a graphical desktop, with mouse, icons, menus,,, This desktop is available in several flavors, most common having for name Kde, Gnome and Xfce, from the richer to the simpler, all similar of what you already know. These elements are nearly the same as what Windows gives, that is a system with little interest by itself. But, when usually you are asked to buy for money a word processing program, a photo editor, a DVD writing application and so on, free software gives all this, and much more, for you, right from the beginning, and for free. Here, no "demo version" for three month, all is available immediately and forever, How can I install GNU/linux There are so many useful programs, all what allows you to run your computer usefully, that it's boring to install them one at a time, like you have to do in Windows. So you can find on the net "Linux Distributions" (Debian, Mandriva, openSUSE, Ubuntu...) that do this work for you. Practically, one never "install Linux" but "a Linux Distribution". Here, we work for and with openSUSE and think this is the better one so we advise you to choose this one ! Once this distribution installed, what needs less than one hour from a free openSUSE DVD, you have on your computer: * Linux (the engine); * Gnu (accelerator, brake and clutch pedals); * Various desktop, Kde, Gnome, Xfce or all of them (dash-board, gear control,,,); * A great number of applications (the road, the map, the country, the town and the lanscape...). Free pre-installed applications * OpenOffice.org «OOo» (word processor, spreadsheet, dias, data base) ; * The GIMP (photo editor, like it's expensive equivalent Photoshop); * Firefox (the web browser); * Thunderbird (the mail client); * DigiKam, (photo management); * Audacity (sound editor) and, in fact, all what you need to begin working. If this basic install is not enough, you have at hand on the net thousands of programs you can download for a mouse ciick and all this free, legally and without any virus or trojan. Usefull notice You can install a GNU/Linux distribution on your computer side by side with your initial Windows if you like and if you want to keep running some Windows application. Depending of how you do the install, you may use the two systems (Linux and Windows) concurrently, using "virtualization" or choose at boot what one you want (dualboot), You can get help here Http://opensuse.org (logo) end of the text (worth A5 paper) -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org