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Wanted: A 15" laptop to install Ubuntu on (not dual-booting) for undergraduate level programming assignments. HIGH priorities: CPU portability(weight) MEDIUM priorities: graphics power battery life LOW priorities: HD space optical drive Budget:~$750 None of the laptops I've found on...

Have a desktop with Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit installed. Presently, it has some corrupt files and can only be launched in safe mode. I write to inquire about Ubuntu as a back up installed. Microsoft says it is supported but I would ask if Ubuntu can be installed to a second hard drive...

Signs are pointing to an October release of the Steam beta for Ubuntu. Steam Beta for Ubuntu May Arrive in October : Read more

Hello, which one of them, would be a better buy. Price is the same, so i canät make a decision on them.

Hello, I installed a new 360 gb hdd on my acer 5520 laptop, previously i had only ubuntu on my old hdd, the system wont find and install win xp from the cd/dvd the new hdd shows in the bios ut the cd/dvd sose not show in the bios altho it does in the acer start up list. when i switch the hdd...

Hello, how can I boot Linux Ubuntu & Fedora from one USB HDD, it like selecting Ubuntu or Fedora *_*

Windows xp pro sp3 Latest oracle virtualbox edition Virtualbox extension pack I have managed to install win xp win 7 and ubuntu 10.04 on virtualbox. But I can't manage to install windows 8 consumer preview or ubuntu 12.04 alpha. Both 32 bit versions. Windows 8 gives me this error message: Your...

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Considering Ubuntu to replace XP home on an ASUS eeePC. They recommend a pentium 4 processor. I have a 900 Mhz Celeron. I know that it is below the recommendation and so i write to inquire if anyone has successfully used a lesser processor for Ubuntu. The drive is 15 Gb and there is 2GB of...

To all who take the time to read this and reply thanks in advance. Situation is as follows: I just recently inherited an Asus laptop. Specs here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220483 The hardware is in perfect condition but the os is not. It currently has ubuntu...

Hi all This is a laptop I am trying to fix. For the longest time I thought there was a bad mem stick. Yesterday I bought new ram for it but it won't come till Friday. So this HP laptop has 512MB (2x256) of ram installed. The BIOS will read all 512MB of memory. Windows / Ubuntu and Memtest86...

I'm wondering what are some good programs to have on a flash drive, like for diagnostics or whatever. I've already got DBAN, FreeNAS, Ubuntu, but what are some other good ones? Thanks.

Hello, my first time around this community, but I thought you may be able to help me. I purchased a new laptop, a HP Pavillion dv7. It came with two 750gb harddrives, and I thought, as the windows installation was on one, and the other seemed clear, that I would install a dual-boot setup with...

Alright forum, I have previously enquired about optimal builds and such but this time I really need your help. I have a 13" white MacBook and a 250GB hard drive. Inside this drive, there was both the pre-installed Macintosh OS-X software and the Ubuntu 11.04 that I installed myself. Today I...