Thread: CMN goes Linux

you need to get a real operating system.

try the new ubuntu distribution.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

you need to get a real operating system. try the new ubuntu distribution.

Jesus Christ, that is your best post ever in the computer forum.

I would green you for it, but I do believe you are taking the piss, old boy

Originally Posted by NickA

I would green you for it, but I do believe you are taking the piss, old boy

i'm not.

i've got a fedora partition on my pc.

i use it just as often as i use windows, but haven't really got to grips with it yet.
chatting to a chap down the pub the other day and he told me the new ubuntu system was the easiest for non tek heads to use.

think I'll give it a go.

^what graphics card have you got?

Originally Posted by NickA

^what graphics card have you got?

no idea.

bound to be an old one though. nvidea gforce springs to mind, is that a graphics card?

my system is getting to be ancient but still works great.

^if it's nvidia that's OK, linux doesn't like ATI.

I've got 1 GB of DDR RAM and an nvidia 6200 waiting for you if you ever decide to pop to bangkok.

Originally Posted by NickA

I've got 1 GB of DDR RAM and an nvidia 6200 waiting for you if you ever decide to pop to bangkok.

really.

thank you.

i'm seriously thinking about getting an all new machine.

you can get something half decent for less than 13,000 at the moment.

will leave the old machine as a download one.

^^how would that work unless you had two internet connections?

I've basically rebuilt my system for 6,000 baht (CPU, Motherboard, graphics card + memory), so if your monitor, case, hard drive, keyboard and DVD writer are OK, that might be the better way to go.

just downloading the latest ubuntu now.

can i just run it from the windows screen or do i need to create a start up disk?

Originally Posted by NickA

^^how would that work unless you had two internet connections?

stop it tristram.

i'm not that thick.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

will leave the old machine as a download one.

Would maybe be better to keep your old one as a linux machine and then buy a new one for Windows or vice versa. No point having a dedicated download machine unless it has it's own internet connection because these new computers can do more than 1 thing at once

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

just downloading the latest ubuntu now. can i just run it from the windows screen or do i need to create a start up disk?

Normally have to burn a CD or DVD, stick it in and reboot. Seriously if you're thinking of getting a new computer, don't bother with the dual boot rubbish, just use linux. If things go wrong, buy a new 'un and have windows on that.

Originally Posted by NickA

Normally have to burn a CD or DVD, stick it in and reboot.

is azureus easy enough to set up in ubuntu.

had murders with it in fedora.

^yes, very easy, as is firefox.

Most windows applications (including games) run fine for me, although I don't use many.

Oh no.

Didn't CMN say many moons ago that he was going to write a package for linux in 6 weeks or somehting like that.

I had to stop using linux cause I couldn't find a reliable way of streaming videos to my xbox.

Rather miffed aboot that but all the available options just didn't cut it.

Although I could always just use the missus's machine for it.

i should point out that this thread is a mod creation, it was unfairly split from benbaas "windows sux" thread.

Im grabbing the mac live cd now. Havent seen linux for a while. Suse on Win was my last one. Think it was 5 CD's, that was a pain

^^ unfairly he said...

If I'm going to do this, i need to create more hard drive space.

can anyone tell me how to remove fedora from its partition and re-integrate the space with the rest of the system? (about 40 gigs I think)

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

If I'm going to do this, i need to create more hard drive space. can anyone tell me how to remove fedora from its partition and re-integrate the spacew it with the rest of the system? (about 40 gigs I think)

Thought you were a computer expert now. Giving advice to people and setting up their systems.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Thought you were a computer expert now. Giving advice to people and setting up their systems.

you going to help me or just be cock??

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

you going to help me or just be cock??

Be a cock.

^
twat.

You need to download a partition manager.

Now if you are going for a complete install of Fedore/Ubuntu you don't.

All you have to do is install it. It will give you the option of using your whole hdd and erasing it.

Job done.

Just make sure you BACKUP anything you need because it will be gone.

^
sounds dangerous to me.

all i want to do is to re-integrate the 40 gigs with the rest of the system.