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I have a new kid at school and he uses PCLinuxOS. I told him that he should use ubuntu or linux mint etc…?

Posted on October 3, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I have a new kid at school and he uses PCLinuxOS. I told him that he should use ubuntu or linux mint etc… He is most definitly a noob to linux. I want to give him the right distro. He hasn’t installed any distro yet he just uses the live cd for PCLINUXOS. Should I give him Ubuntu or Linux mint. I think i should give him ubuntu because it has the software center. It is visually apealing and well its popular and user friendly. However I do know Linux Mint comes with all codecs pre installed. This person doesn’t even know what an exe file is until i explained it to him today. He is however all for Linux and thinks its cool. Also KDE or gnome?

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Anyone with experience using a Linux distro with KDE 4?

Posted on July 28, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

I’m looking to experiment with KDE, I’ve used Gnome distros up until this point. I’ve read multiple reviews and forum articles talking about KDE 4 still being unstable, but also have seen Pardus, Linux Mint 8 KDE, and Mandriva 2010 singled out as strong releases dealing with this issue. Any Linux users who could address the (supposed) KDE 4 instablitity issues/recommend a distro would be welcome. I’m looking to install this along side my main Mint 8 distro, not just play around with it as a Live CD experience, so any help narrowing the field without culling through 10-15 distros would be very helpful.

PS: My system is a modern one, with plenty of RAM and a 3.0 Ghz processor, so it’s more than enough to handle the resource demands of KDE 4.

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How can I get to and edit xorg.conf and Sessions -> Startup Programs if Gnome won’t start in Debian Linux?

Posted on July 25, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

I edited both to configure compiz, but I made a mistake…Now it says “no screens found” and that it’s “unable to connect to the X server” and goes to the kernel. I know what I did wrong, so how do I get to xorg.conf and Startup Programs from there to fix it? I’m using Debian Lenny…I have a Linux Mint Live CD if there’s any way to get to them from that.

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What is the best Linux distro for me?

Posted on July 24, 2010 by admin| 8 Comments

Not looking for one that apes Windows. Quite willing to learn to work in a new desktop environment (though you’ve lost me at “command line…”) In fact non-Windowsness is appealing. Basically, what I’d like to know is whether a GNOME or KDE distro would be better suited to my hardware (details below). I like to personalise things, and work with options, etc. I also like a bit of bling! So I was leaning towards KDE. But above all, I prize stability…

My laptop:
Toshiba Satellite A210
AMD Turion 64×2 TL-60, 2 GHz
2GB RAM
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600, memory amount : 512 MB dedicated VRAM

Currently runs Vista Home Premium. Fed up with the slowness and clunkiness of Vista, as well as little glitches, like Windows Explorer shutting down every so often.

I’m not technical – never going to learn to work with code or anything like that. But I am intuitive, can figure things out, not a complete idiot!

I’ve downloaded Ubuntu to a Live CD, and have been giving that a go. Enjoying it – seems nice and clear. Will do the same with Kubuntu soon.

But my question is, regardless of which I prefer on an aesthetic or organizational level, which one would be more stable on my hardware?

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Running Windows Virtually within Linux?

Posted on July 3, 2010 by admin| 3 Comments

i have been told that it is possible to run Windows XP SP2 virtually within Linux and i would like to know how. i have Ubuntu 7.04 running a gnome desktop (if that makes a difference). i am well aware that it will be slow and i am very patient with computers, also it will have to be accessed from a ‘live cd’ or a usb pen stick.
LOL. i dunno why i never thought of that :-D

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