I hadn't heard of ELX, so I went to their website.
I guess it is more like Windows than other Linux distros, because you can
find claims on their website like "saving files to floppies is 'not
available' in other Linux distros".

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aldis A. Tuck" <dlegion@yahoo.com>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: ELX

> Greetings,
> Is anyone using ELX Linux?
> I wanted to try it but I am unable to download
> anything, I have dsl but when I try to download
> anything...............   It starts out at 40kb/sec
> then goes down from there, before you know, it's
> telling me 13 or more hours to finish.
>
> I did a speed test and these are the results:
> download speed : 313866 bps, or 313 kbps
> A 38.3 kb/sec transfer rate
>
> upload speed : 106382 bps, or 106 kbps.
>
> Anyway I wanted to try out ELX to see if it was
> something more user friendly and more windows like( to
> help out my little brother with Linux).
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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