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[The Fifth Horseman]

Thanks! I'll download it and use it on another one of my computers to see how it's like. It's great that it can run from Windows or a USB thingy, since I don't have a CD Writer.[/b]

Had to use it exclusively in place of Windows for a few days some months back - turned out to be very convenient to use.

[Abi79]

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Had to use it exclusively in place of Windows for a few days some months back - turned out to be very convenient to use. [/b]

So I can use it instead of Windows98, if it will ever crash at startup? Cool.

[Cockroach]

DSL is nice and feature packed. I have it sitting on a 150mb partition on my Pentium I laptop. The one thing that I really like about it is that you can add modules to it have it detect automatically on startup. I've got Opera, Gnumeric and Doom on top of the standard set.

[The Fifth Horseman]

So I can use it instead of Windows98, if it will ever crash at startup? Cool.[/b]

Yup, and it also reads NTFS partitions nicely -> useful for recovery purposes.

[win98]

I have an ubuntu cd but it refuses to dual boot with my windows xp installation im working on it but after trying the live cd I think linux is great.

[Onyx]

Guys, I need help.

Acronis does not detect my SATA disk and I need to swap some partitions before installing Linux.

Can I do it when installing Ubuntu? I know I was able to manage partitions when instaling Mandrake looong time ago...

[Cockroach]

I installed Ubuntu just fine on my new machine with sata300. You supposedly can resize and move data around too, but I would definately have it all backed up first.

[chickenman]

Ubuntu/Kubuntu should work great on any computer with 512MB ram or more.

If you got less than 512MB of ram you should try Xubuntu, which uses the XFCE desktop that takes up far less RAM.

Linux is the best OS to use due to it's very high level or security and the pile of free software / games for it. It's also easy to use but at some point sooner or later you will need to learn how to use the terminal and such.

Good Luck !

[Abi79]

Linux is the best OS to use due to it's very high level or security and the pile of free software / games for it. It's also easy to use but at some point sooner or later you will need to learn how to use the terminal and such.

Good Luck ![/b]

Thanks, but what's that a terminal in Linux?

[chickenman]

Terminal / Console / Command Line,etc.
http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal
http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_toc.html