[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“The advantages are clear: you get a secure system
without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the
best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 8 is a
Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 9.10 that has lots of packages
in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe
Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to
install on other distributions; it therefore provides a
user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux
newbies.”