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Jul 5^th, 2008 at 8:56pm

Mazza Offline
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...Is it really that hard to make it work? i heard that it's like windows, but no viros? Undecided

EDIT: i found what looks to be a good one Cheesy

, it need no separate partion of my HDD

and it's only 1.9Gb Angry

that will take awhile, but oh well Grin

oh and link: http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php?menu=3

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Reply #1 - Jul 6^th, 2008 at 9:55am

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Ive tried Ubuntu Linux which as far as I know it the most supported version out there. Here is a link:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

You can run it from the CD to test it out, and it comes with an intuitive installer which will setup a partition so you can run it with windows. Wink

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Reply #2 - Jul 6^th, 2008 at 11:00am

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JSpahn wrote on Jul 6^th, 2008 at 9:55am:

Ive tried Ubuntu Linux which as far as I know it the most supported version out there. Here is a link:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

You can run it from the CD to test it out, and it comes with an intuitive installer which will setup a partition so you can run it with windows. Wink

Yeah but i don't have a DVD burner Angry

but the one i'm planning to get runs from it's oen folder from where i chose

Edit: ohhh look good, and all the other i looked at it was bloody hard to find a place to download, thanks for the link Wink

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Reply #3 - Jul 6^th, 2008 at 11:06am

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Installing the OS is easy, but installing drivers or extra software requires you to become a nerd. Have to faff around in terminal knowing commands, sudo, sources.list text files, libs etc.

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Reply #4 - Jul 7^th, 2008 at 9:37pm

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Need help!!!! i can't connect to the net Undecided

i type in the pass and it takes awhile to say wrong password Angry

then i try to open up firefox, it says it's loading but it never loads, and it's never used my HDD (WTF) that weird, it won't accept my keyboard input sometimes when i trying to go to a website to see if i had connected...i'm think 'bout un-installing it Angry

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Oh and if your wondering how i'm typing this... dual boot Cool

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Reply #5 - Jul 7^th, 2008 at 9:58pm

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Yikes, I never had a problem with Ubuntu?? Is it possible you got a corrupt download? Embarrassed

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Reply #6 - Jul 8^th, 2008 at 2:21am

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JSpahn wrote on Jul 7^th, 2008 at 9:58pm:

Yikes, I never had a problem with Ubuntu?? Is it possible you got a corrupt download? Embarrassed

Well i 'm un-installing it, it has came with only frustration Angry

it has reset my OC speed Angry

it has slow down my computer, it is hogging up HDD space Angry

and i'm trying to get info on the net...found it but it says get rid of the partion...but i can't find to partion Angry

so i need help with getting rid of it!

And i don't want to download it again! 4 $#@!@#$ hours is long enough... and they say windows is hard Angry

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Reply #7 - Jul 8^th, 2008 at 4:33am

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Must have incompatible hardware, have installed Ubuntu on brothers laptop and included applications work fine, automatically detects the DHCP server (router) open up firefox and loads up default homepage.

Linux is difficult only if you need to install software or drivers, if everything works from the first boot, and it's just a net PC..

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Reply #8 - Jul 8^th, 2008 at 6:09am

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I did it successfully

and now to do stuff

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Reply #9 - Jul 8^th, 2008 at 1:27pm

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I run PCLinuxOS on a test rig... which unfortunately doesn't want to work for whatever reason..

I am probably going to do a clean install some time soon.

When it was working, on this computer, I enjoyed it. A bit of a pain to get used to (and running 800x600 on 1440x900 was terrible until I could look for drivers) but aside from that it works well... much better than I thought something free like it would.

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Reply #10 - Jul 8^th, 2008 at 5:15pm

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Mazza wrote on Jul 8^th, 2008 at 2:21am:

JSpahn wrote on Jul 7^th, 2008 at 9:58pm:

Yikes, I never had a problem with Ubuntu?? Is it possible you got a corrupt download? Embarrassed

Well i 'm un-installing it, it has came with only frustration Angry

it has reset my OC speed Angry

it has slow down my computer, it is hogging up HDD space Angry

and i'm trying to get info on the net...found it but it says get rid of the partion...but i can't find to partion Angry

so i need help with getting rid of it!

And i don't want to download it again! 4 $#@!@#$ hours is long enough... and they say windows is hard Angry

sorry about the inconvenience Grin

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Reply #11 - Jul 9^th, 2008 at 4:07am

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If you've ever used DOS or Unix then Linux is a doddle. I've got one machine for Windows and the other for Linux at home.

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Reply #12 - Jul 9^th, 2008 at 5:49am

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ubuntu is good, but i would say keep them on seperate machines, i had ubuntu installed and dual booting with windows but as the windows MBR gets over written with GRUB loader once you uninstall linux you have t re-write the windows MBR which can cause problems.

ubuntu is great, and all driver installations are taken care of by the OS when you first boot into it.

but i would recomend having one OS to a machine.

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