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http://crunchbanglinux.org – I'm the only GNU/Linux user is my "office". One colleague has shown an interest in GNU/Linux and often brings me flash drives infected with some virus or another to delete for him. I gave him Ubuntu 11.10 ISO on disk a while ago and he's booted into it a few times. Today he decided to take the plunge. We reinstalled Windows 7 from the recovery partition on his Sony laptop, shrank the Windows partition from within Windows, split the fourth partition into /, /home, /swap and space for another Windows drive and installed Ubuntu 12.04 :) We're behind a proxy/firewall, but (HowTos)

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