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Read Me: Resources to check out before starting a new thread cscgal (Mar 27th, 2004)	Apr 13th, 2007 by TheNNS	6	6,221
Read Me: Why Linux doesnt need an anti virus ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) aripaka (Mar 27th, 2006)	Jul 7th, 2008 by blueclock	58	13,991
Poll: Favorite Distro ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) TheNNS (Jul 24th, 2006)	Aug 22nd, 2008 by MONODA	52	8,156
Linux Torrents... fooumang (Feb 2nd, 2005)	Jan 5th, 2006 by fooumang	8	17,890
New To Linux? Not a Computer Genius? CLick->Here<-For Some Useful Info. fragmented_user (Jun 29th, 2005)	Jul 26th, 2005 by alex_extreme	5	3,586
Overview of UNIX cscgal (Nov 16th, 2003)	Dec 22nd, 2006 by mikeandike22	6	6,593
Quick Reference for Linux Commands ( 1 2) cscgal (Nov 16th, 2003)	Jan 17th, 2006 by jackfusion	18	24,816
Creating the partitions needed for installing MEPIS ( 1 2) mepnoob2005 (Apr 3rd, 2007)	Apr 6th, 2007 by crunchie	11	2,646
iPod Linux korento (Jun 25th, 2007)	Jun 26th, 2007 by John A	3	2,047
Should I give Linux a go? ( 1 2 3 4) Grum (Jun 15th, 2007)	Jun 17th, 2007 by iamthwee	35	3,014
Ubuntu or Xubuntu? DrTsus (Jun 20th, 2007)	Jun 21st, 2007 by pheeror	5	1,906
Solved: Ubuntu- No Cursor! DrTsus (Jun 23rd, 2007)	Jun 23rd, 2007 by jbennet	3	1,277
Darn! I crashed my virtual machine (Ubuntu)! linux (Jun 23rd, 2007)	Jun 23rd, 2007 by linux	1	762
hi from newbie judych ( 1 2) judych (Jun 24th, 2007)	Jun 30th, 2007 by judych	10	1,563
hi Darshanaa (Jun 25th, 2007)	Jun 25th, 2007 by Darshanaa	0	596
ppl linux enterprise 10 hamada_1990 (Jul 10th, 2007)	Jul 17th, 2007 by hamada_1990	9	1,037
linux FFS kernel support ( 1 2) alienlinux (Jun 14th, 2007)	Jun 21st, 2007 by alienlinux	17	2,787
Need help with Ubuntu! ( 1 2) Stuki (Jun 12th, 2007)	Jun 14th, 2007 by alienlinux	10	1,409
Confused x86_64 or i386? ( 1 2 3) emen (Jul 19th, 2005)	Jul 1st, 2007 by jbennet	28	14,003
Gentoo vs Ubuntu ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) extofer (Nov 5th, 2005)	Jun 12th, 2007 by planetxmail	75	57,812
Starting MEPIS in a safe mode mepnoob2005 (Apr 18th, 2007)	Jun 10th, 2007 by jbennet	4	1,388
Solved: Dual boot winxp/ubuntu ( 1 2 3) ft3ssgeek (Jun 3rd, 2007)	Jun 4th, 2007 by jbennet	20	3,478
MX transfer from ISP to Mail server chuckt3hnewb (Jun 3rd, 2007)	Jun 4th, 2007 by chuckt3hnewb	3	1,284
AntiX is the new MEPISLite ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) mepnoob2005 (Jun 7th, 2007)	Jun 16th, 2007 by alienlinux	51	6,335
woes ( 1 2 3 4 5) iamthwee (Jun 9th, 2007)	Jun 21st, 2007 by iamthwee	42	3,509
I am at a loss for which to choose ( 1 2) Antonio44 (Jun 11th, 2007)	Jun 23rd, 2007 by jbennet	18	1,823
partition problems ( 1 2) scru (Jul 13th, 2007)	Jul 18th, 2007 by John A	10	2,211