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For Linux users: What open source OS would you recommend?

Posted on November 22, 2011 by admin| 3 Comments

I want to try a Linux based OS on my machine as dual boot system w/ Windows Vista. Found lots of info in net, tried Ubuntu Live CD (without install), however cannot decide which OS will be the best for me. I’m not experienced w/ Linux and just want to try open source soft. I researched all of these distributions http://www.linux.com/distributions/ Is out there something else I don’t know about? Also the question is which distribution will work the best on my machine which is HP Pavillion dv9420us, see http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?storeName=computer_store&landing=computers&category=notebooks/dv9000z_series&subcat1=rts&catLevel=3&product_code=GA354UA%23ABA&tab=detailed_specs#defaultAnchor Thanks!
Can I try other OS without installing them (like Ubuntu)?

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Linux users… please help….?

Posted on October 10, 2011 by admin| 4 Comments

Okay first of all i would like to thank youfor clicking on my question…
- Well here is the thing…. i tried to install ubuntu on an external drive… didnt work well… so i shut down my external … and rebooted my system…. then on reboot an error showed up … error 21 and error 22 ( maybe linux errors)… and i could not get on windows…. what i did is that i placed teh live CD back into my system and partition my harddrive to run ubuntu and windows …. well it worked i dual booted with both … but when i tried to reformat Ubuntu’s partition and delete it so that i can use only windows … teh same error 22 appeared …. right now teh only was i can get to windows is by dual booting with linux …. and i dont want that… this laptop is 3 years old .. and ubuntu doesnt really run appropriately on this machine… how can i remove ubuntu and make windows act as my primary OS…. please help… any suggestions would be appretiated.. i tried their IRC help .. but no1 helped me
FOrmatting my windows .. partition is really not an option … thank you for your help

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linux users and computer geeks help please?

Posted on August 14, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

i upgraded to windows 7 about a year ago and i like it a lot.much better than crap vista.but i have been playing around with some linux live cds of late.i tried ubuntu and passed on that.tried fedora 12 and liked very much.but my favorite linux distro i have looked at is pclinuxos 2010 .it blew me away.if it wasn’t for windows 7 i would dump windows all together and go pure linux.my problem is i like windows 7 and pclinuxos a lot.what little i find on the net says windows 7 and pclinuxos 2010 don’t get along.can i dual boot 7 and pclinuxos 2010 or do i have to make a choice.would love to have them both.thanks to anyone who can give me a straight answer.

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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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Ubuntu Help Linux Users?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

Please help. I deleted ubuntu version 9.04 after i dual booted it with ubuntu and windows vista (partition in my hard drive) and i deleted that just like that from the disk management. After i rebooted, there was a message GRUB ERROR 17. Please help me .. I have a live cd for ubuntu, i know very little about terminal commands. pleaseeeee help

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