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04-29-2012, 12:29 PM
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Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Available Now
Kubuntu 12.04 LTS is available
for download. 'LTS' means long term support (Five years) Not bad for free, eh? 
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04-29-2012, 01:50 PM
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Very nice. Thanks for the update.
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04-29-2012, 06:40 PM
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Better than Mint?
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04-29-2012, 06:46 PM
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04-30-2012, 10:59 AM
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Who defines which Linux is "better"? It's all personal preference.
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04-30-2012, 11:42 AM
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I think you have to be geekier than a Mac user, or have the time and want-to to learn it all. I haven't plugged my Mint in for awhile 'cause it kept changing my Bios time which changed my Win7 time. Was just a toy to experiment with anyway.
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04-30-2012, 12:08 PM
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That's one reason I have a separate Linux box. I have 4 computers on a KVM - Mint 11 LXDE, Win2K, XP, and Win 7.
Grab some of the parts out of your closet and put some more boxes together - and get a good KVM! The Win2K and XP boxes I built, the other 2 are other people's castaways that required relatively minor repairs to get working. The Linux box is an old Dell Dimension 4550 that had a blown PSU and sick hard drive (got a good used Dell PSU online for $21, I had an old 200 gig IDE drive in my pile, had 1 gig ram to max it out, and an AGP Geforce 6200 video card to replace the ATI card for better Linux compatibility) - and the Win 7 box is a relatively new HP slimline Pavilion that had a blown PSU, got a TFX Seasonic for 50 bucks and ran the HP recovery for a fresh start. |
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04-30-2012, 01:47 PM
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I use one box (test rig) and have a few hot swap drive bays. KVM is a good way to go as well
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05-04-2012, 12:23 PM
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Or you could cut down on power consumption and run a virtual machine host. Virtuabox is easy enough for most people to install.
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06-08-2012, 10:00 AM
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I really should piece together a box and do a few linux installs..its been a long while since I;ve tried anything... I think Ubuntu 10 something was out and I ran PC Linux OS 09
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07-02-2012, 06:26 PM
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just finished d/l it. now to install. never touched linux before, should be fun.
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07-02-2012, 06:55 PM
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07-03-2012, 01:23 PM
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cant get it to install from cd. i have no internet connection, it keeps wanting to d/l other files. whiff. when i try to install from another hdd, it starts to install and then says i dont have permission.
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07-09-2012, 12:48 PM
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finally got it to install. went with linux mint 13-cinnamon i think. maybe maya.
i have it on a thumb drive for my laptop and fully installed on my desktop tower. now to get my hands dirty.... |
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07-31-2012, 04:59 PM
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I saw it on a free CD today at Fry's
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