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06-18-2010, 05:03 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 2
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A complete re-start on a messed up net-book...
Okay, a friends net-book has been messed up by a nasty nasty virus- largely irrelevent. My idea is to burn a Linux ISO onto a dvd, wipe the hard drive and just start from scratch with a new and interesting operating system. Any tips, hints and OS reccomendations, let me know. Idiot proof please!!!
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06-18-2010, 07:14 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,298
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Pretty generic
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Any tips, hints and OS recommendations
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Hard to say guessing from the specs provided. I guess Mintis
Good Luck with your friends netbook. |
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06-18-2010, 07:20 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2008
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu, PCLinux,
Posts: 11,413
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You could check the Distro Reviews link on the upper right of this page. Anything on the top 10 at the distrowatch site should work. Depends upon what your friend uses the computer for. You could check this sit:
http://www.linux-netbook.com/linux/distributions
it has brief descriptions of a number of systems. I don't have much experience with netbookd as I've only installed PCLinux and Slax on them and they both worked fine. |
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06-20-2010, 04:35 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Minnesota, US
Distribution: Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro
Posts: 1,793
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No OS is completely idiot-proof, but Ubuntu 10.04 and Mint 9 (which is based on Ubuntu 10.04) are LTS versions, so your friend won't have to upgrade the whole OS quite as often as would be the case if your friend wanted to keep current with Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, or most other popular (and rapidly-changing) distros.
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06-21-2010, 06:39 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Roodepoort, South Africa
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04, Antix19.3
Posts: 3,797
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lozramsey
Okay, a friends net-book has been messed up by a nasty nasty virus- largely irrelevent. My idea is to burn a Linux ISO onto a dvd, wipe the hard drive and just start from scratch with a new and interesting operating system. Any tips, hints and OS reccomendations, let me know. Idiot proof please!!!
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And how does your friend feel about your idea? |
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06-21-2010, 07:02 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2010
Posts: 2
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Hurrah!
Thank you people, tried with Mint- works like an absolute dream, friend made up. A new convert... well two  |
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06-21-2010, 07:19 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Sep 2009
Posts: 6,443
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If you like you can read the tutorials in my sig.
And if this is solved, mark the thread as Solved (in Thread Tools).
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