Mepis or Ubuntu are good distros to start with, they tend to find all your hardware and set it up correctly with little or no help from you. I...
Most things are for sale if you put the right amount of money in the right hand.
OK. Find a Linux/BSD distrobution you like. Download it and burn it. Reboot with the CD/DVD. Follow instructions. [img]
That machine ought to rock on Linux. You might try one of the "live" Ubuntu Linux distributions, it comes with Gparted which helps you shrink your...
http://www.news.com/Microsoft-pulls-Vista-SP1-update/2100-1016_3-6231299.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc Oops!
I've been a farm worker, coal miner, surveyor, then mine superintendent and got my associates at night, then purchasing agent. Then a hunter and...
I moved here in 2005, and broadband wasn't available until a few months ago - I was going to get satellite Internet but they couldn't tell me if I...
Those are the primaries (some states have "caucuses" instead) where the major parties each choose their respective candidate, the actual election...
Actually, that's a problem that his plan addresses - with "portability" of employer-paid plans, tax breaks, partial subsidizing of premiums for...
I like this project even better: http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml
Ron Paul is a stickler for adherence to the United States Constitution, which includes: [/i]
I've been playing with this Linux distribution for a week or so now, and I'm beginning to like it very much. There's a lot of "command line...
Some OS will boot from a logical partition. Actually, I think you have to set a small primary partition to redirect the various OS during boot,...
I'd guess Grub. I say "guess", because I only have three OS's (actually, 3 Linux distributions) on mine, I set the fourth partition as an extended...
If we can get back to the original poster's question with something hopefully helpful: I'd suggest you try several "distros" (flavors) of Linux...
Thanks, that's a pretty neat trick! I'm starting to appreciate sudo more but I didn't like it much at first. Old dog, new trick. [img]
Well, I've decided - to hell with paths! I noticed last year that my plants are no respecters of my garden designing talents. Some took over the...
I think we may be stumbling on semantics, Gardener. What I'm calling the hull is the green outer soft layer, by shells I mean the hard woody part...
I was reading the journal of a naturalist who traveled the eastern US around 1760 or so, he said the natives harvested hickory nuts by smashing...
I downloaded Ruby and ordered a book on it, I think that going through that might get it to sink in more naturally. I was once frightened by...
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