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which linux distribution?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

well, i am a new guy to the penguin world. i want to start using a linux version because mainly, open source fascinates me..i’m just entering college now..i hav been using windows since my first grade…and a couple fo months ago, i bought a macbook pro 13..and from then on, i felt that unix(or linux) is the way to go..

this is my first shot at linux..and many have suggested that ubuntu is very good for beginners because of its huge community..i did a little research and i found out that even opensuse is also pretty good….

i have a 5 year old pc, which has 1 gig of memory with an integrated graphic memory of about 256 mb, and a pentium 4 2.26 ghz processor..

i wonder if ubuntu 10.4 can run with all the visual effects turned on..and how easy is opensuse…cuz i m willing to experiment…

and honestly i don’t want to run linux on my mac yet ;) ..its just that i want to experiment first on my old pc…

and do all linux versions have support for printers and scanners? cuz i have a hp psc-1410 all in one…and my dad uses this pc only for scanning and all that…he’ll kill me if he’s not able to scan :P ….

need some help guys, this is the first time i m gonna install linux…

and as far as live cd goes, i ve tried it out earlier, and for some reason, it just wouldn’t start…i ve already checked ubuntu when it was in its 6th version, and it worked ok..but then i was very young..

sorry for the long description, but then may be soon, i ll be helping out other guys ;)

any help would be appreciated :D

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What Linux Edition is right for me?

Posted on July 31, 2010 by admin| 5 Comments

OK, so XP has stopped working and Linux is free and Open-source right?
Well, I was hoping that someone out there might be able to help me choose a linux edition for my machine.
My computer is old, it has 1.9 – 2.0 GHz of processing power, Intel Pentium 4 inside and 512 MB of RAM.
I want to put a version of Linux that will be fast on this type of machine, that has a sleek, cool interface. That’s easy to get use to but has many advanced options if I need them.
I am new to Linux but I have used several of the LIVE Linux CD’s on my computer and some worked fast, others slow. I also think that my lappy (laptop) has 32 MB of Video Memory. Yes, I agree, it’s OLD but it can run XP smoothly if you don’t install too many programs on it.
So, any suggestions?
PS: With the Linux version, you would recommend, is it able to connect smoothly to a Windows 7 computer because I bought a new Windows 7 computer and I would like those computers to exchange information and files with each other so no matter which computer I choose to work on, I can access the files and folders neccessary. Using, I think it was called a cross-over cable.
Please provide the name and website details.
Thanks in advance! :)

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What Linux Edition is right for me?

Posted on July 31, 2010 by admin| Leave a comment

OK, so XP has stopped working and Linux is free and Open-source right?
Well, I was hoping that someone out there might be able to help me choose a linux edition for my machine.
My computer is old, it has 1.9 – 2.0 GHz of processing power, Intel Pentium 4 inside and 512 MB of RAM.
I want to put a version of Linux that will be fast on this type of machine, that has a sleek, cool interface. That’s easy to get use to but has many advanced options if I need them.
I am new to Linux but I have used several of the LIVE Linux CD’s on my computer and some worked fast, others slow. I also think that my lappy (laptop) has 32 MB of Video Memory. Yes, I agree, it’s OLD but it can run XP smoothly if you don’t install too many programs on it.
So, any suggestions?
PS: With the Linux version, you would recommend, is it able to connect smoothly to a Windows 7 computer because I bought a new Windows 7 computer and I would like those computers to exchange information and files with each other so no matter which computer I choose to work on, I can access the files and folders neccessary. Using, I think it was called a cross-over cable.
Please provide the name and website details.
Thanks in advance! :)

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Linux Live CD Needed?

Posted on June 22, 2010 by admin| 2 Comments

Okay, I know pretty much nothing about linux, but for ventrilo and the open source control panel for ventrilo to work, I need linux. My probelm is I have an old laptop (BIOS date is 1999) that I’m going to run linux on and it only has 127 mb of ram. I need a Linux distribution that is i386 that I can run as a LiveCD to do this.

Thank-you!
By the way, I tried Ubuntu and it won’t work on my old laptop (doesn’t meet 2000 bios cutoff) and SLAX doesn’t work either.

If I need to, I can wipe my hard drive of Windows XP Pro and put the linux os on there instead, but I need to know if its a good, reliable linux os that I can use with the internet before I loose everything.

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Pardus 2009.1 live cd…….KDE with a turkish twist….

Posted on June 2, 2010 by admin| 12 Comments

Here we have pardus from turkey,a gov sponsored Linux development i am led to believe,and this incarnation is very nice too,now the version i downloaded did not have any installer so have had to run it in the box to get a capture for you,but on the whole its quite good,but i will wait for the new version with the installer (2010) and then give it another go. Watch in fullscreen and HD………….

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