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As everyone knows , The new Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) is released. It is pretty awesome and more stable than the ones before it. If you haven't seen what's up with the new ubuntu and its new look, i recommend reading this blog post Quick Review on Ubuntu 10.04 .
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So first step is downloading Ubuntu. It depends which version do you want. the 32-bit...
I was given an old machine by a friend and I took it to work, where we have very few machines for people to use. It's a drop-in centre with very little money.
I put Windows on it to start with (XP Home) because that's what all our service users are used to. Every day a nag popped up telling us that we had nn days until the system expired and we'd have to register it.
I don't blame Microsoft for doing this. I can understand that they want people to pay for using their...
Yes, I realize this is a Linux site, but I just have to talk about Windows 7 here for a minute. Anyone else tried it? I’m sure a lot of you have. I’ve been playing around with the release client on my old spare machine, and even though it’s running on some old technology (Pentium 4 3.02 GHz, 1 GB ram – basically the minimum Microsoft recommends) I have to admit I’m pretty impressed with what I’ve seen so far.
As much as I generally am not a fan of Microsoft’s OS, dealing with it...
I started using Linux back in the late 1990s. Back then it was dialup on Windows 95, and I was getting fed up with Windows 95 and its constant crashing and other problems, so I read about Linux somewhere, and downloaded Red Hat Linux, and installed that.
However, there were a number of problems with that, including no support for my Creative soundcard nor the modem, and it did not automount the hard drive partitions other than root, and I did not know how to fix that. So I gave up...
Recently on a forum, a person said they were given an old PC running Windows and it was getting very slow. If you are in that position, read on.
If you have an old Windows XP PC, there is probably a lot of defragmentation on the hard drive, and lots of files from software that was installed and then uninstalled as well.
You should defragment the hard drive. Also scan for viruses and spyware, and rootkits. If it is still slow, then it might be best to back up all your...
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