Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 2nd, 2009 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 1,176 I have started a new post in this section titled " Choosing the right Distro" , you can read that for more info. I'll keep updating it. |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 2nd, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,378 I'll keep adding more posts to this tutorial. Keep checking this thread for more articles. |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 2nd, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,378 Choosing the right Distro – Part I
Users trying to migrate from Windows to Linux have to make the most important and difficult decision “ Choosing the Right Distro (short for distribution) “. It... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jul 1st, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,460 Are you sure that vista doesn't give you an option? Because I had a laptop which came with vista preinstalled. So to install Linux, I had to first partition my hard disk into 2 partitions ( 1 for... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 30th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,460 Always when you try to dual-boot and in your case boot 3 Operating Systems, make sure you install Linux at the end.
Because when you install windows after installing linux, windows overwrites the... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 16th, 2009 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 853 yes, all other things except for some display would be just fine. I'm guessing if you disable compiz fusion and other display effects it should be fine.
And mandriva is supposed to be really good... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 16th, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 937 Ok it works, however there is one problem that I noticed...in the HDA Intel ( Alsa Mixer ) GUI way the mic1, capture1, capture 2 other recording input are always disabled automatically.
I enable... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 16th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,187 ok that's wierd.....cause I remember when I ordered a 9.04 ubuntu cd I was asked to create an account in launchpad and only using that account I could order the cds.
And also I got the 32-bit... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 16th, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 937 Okay here are my configurations
Sound In: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
Sound Out: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
Ringing: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
At this point the video works perfectly, I tried making a... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 16th, 2009 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 853 Intel Drivers are OpenSource which means they fully support Linux. Recently they made a lot of changes like literally rewriting the Intel Drivers for better performance, and unfortunately it had... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 16th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,187 When you order the CD's from shipit.ubuntu.com you get to choose whether you want the 32-bit or 64-bit Ubuntu installation cd. They also provide you options between desktop Edition and Server... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 15th, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 937 Hi,
I have searched a lot in google about proper video and audio chat in linux. Skype is available for linux, but for some reason when I installed it in ubuntu 8.10, the audio was very low. I... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 15th, 2009 |
| Replies: 72 Views: 16,642 Definitely Ubuntu, I think Ubuntu is more practical where everything is installed automatically at install. And being based on Debian it has an excellent packaging system and millions of packages... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 15th, 2009 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 853 Obviously you are dual booting windows and linux, so you have fedora and windows installed in two partitions of your hard disk. You can easily access the windows drive from fedora by mounting it.
... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 10th, 2009 |
| Replies: 19 Views: 3,136 Ubuntu is currently the best linux distribution after Mandriva and OpenSuse. It is suited for users new to linux, and are thinking of migrating from windows to linux.
Ubuntu releases a new version... |
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Jun 10th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 1,187 Hi,
You can visit this link https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ where you can order LiveCds of Ubuntu Server or Desktop Editions and they will mail it to you for FREE!!!!
You may have to create an... |