Hi Roy.
What a lot of wonderful info, quite spoiled for choice really!
Thankyou.
I have been busy downloading Suse only to find it will not install
on my Dell ... trying to load .../casper/vmlinuz ... and failing, so
I downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 remix and that did the same, so I booted up
into XP to see the disk files and it opened up inviting me to install
in windows!!!
Cheers.
Lee.
--- In LINUX_Newbies@
>
> That is a loaded question. There are over 300 distributions and everybody
> has their favourite. It all depends on your preference, needs and tolerance
> for frustration.
>
> Here goes my opinion:
>
> Most popular: Ubuntu
> Most help online: Ubuntu
> Most packages (programmes)
> Biggest community: Ubuntu
> Friendliest for new users: Mint, PCLinuxOS, SimplyMEPIS
> Most stable: Debian
> Most bleeding edge: Fedora
> Hardest of the top distros: Fedora
> Friendliest to open source: Fedora, GNewSense, Debian
> Most over-rated: Ubuntu, openSuSE
> Most under-rated: Kubuntu, Mandriva
> Fastest: Fedora
> Most basic: Gentoo, Arch, LFS, Slackware
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> Personal favourite: Kubuntu
>
> You will get arguments about many of these. It is just opinion from
> whomever, based on whatever experience they have had. I have had extensive
> experience and have used every distribution above. It doesn't make it any
> more true because I have. It is still my opinion.
>
> If you are a new user, I suggest that you start with Ubuntu because it is
> the most popular and branch out later. You will find more users with similar
> problems and more information. I would suggest Mint, but it is just Ubuntu
> that comes out later with a slightly different look and few goodies that may
> or may not be useful. If you install Ubuntu and the restricted-extras you
> essentially have Mint. That too is an opinion. Take them with a grain of
> salt.
>
> Try them for yourself. A good place to start is at distrowatch.
> the top 100 distributions and has download links. Burn the ISO images to
> rewritable DVDs or CDs and you only waste time. Better still, install
> Unetbootin and it will make a bootable usb key from the ISO. It comes in
> both Linux and Windows versions. You can also have Unetbootin take care of
> the downloading the ISO. Very handy!
>
> http://unetbootin.
>
> Roy
>
> On 28 March 2010 07:56, Lee <leo1949uk@.
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> >
> >
> > Thanks Joan, but only a couple of the URLs worked and I have been
> > fiddling with a couple of the other downloads and trying different
> > boot disk layouts with little success, so I think I will let the
> > Sony stand on the shelf a while ... meanwhile, I do have a Dell Latit
> > ude laptop with around 750meg ram and 30gig hardrive running XP and
> > a built in CD drive, that does boot up install disks so ... next
> > question ... which is the best Linux and GUI that I can download??
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Lee.
> >
> > --- In LINUX_Newbies@
> > Joan Leach <jleach728@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Did you see these?
> > >
> > > http://www.tldp.
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> > > http://www.knoppix.
> > >
> > > http://linux.
> > >
> > > http://featherlinux
> > >
> > > http://paulski.
> > > >>The one above is for SBM, which has support for those CD drives, too.
> > >
> > > Also, if you can do a frugal install to its hard drive in another
> > computer with a Linux Live CD it might work.
> > >
> > > I hope some of these might help you out...
> > > Joan in Reno
> > >
> > > --- On Sat, 3/27/10, Lee <leo1949uk@> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Lee <leo1949uk@>
> > > Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??
> > > To: LINUX_Newbies@
> > > Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7:15 PM
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> > > --- In LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com, Scott <scottro@ > wrote:
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> > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:12:23PM -0000, Lee wrote:
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> > > > > I have a Sony Vaio 9" netbook which had win 95 installed so I
> > formatted
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> > > > > the hard drive to install XP!! but now I find I can`t use the CD
> > drive because I also wiped the CD driver :-/
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> > > > Does the BIOS see the CD drive? If so, you should, in theory, at least,
> > >
> > > > be able to use a CD. The driver should be Windows specific.
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> > > Not unless a driver is installed..
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> > > > I don't know if something from the Win95 error can use a USB stick, but
> > >
> > > > that's another possibility. However, you mention a USB port. If you
> > >
> > > > have a USB thumb drive, many distributions can be installed (or used
> > >
> > > > with a Live version) from a thumb drive, such as Puppy.
> > >
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> > >
> > > Without an operating system, the usb port only sees the external
> > >
> > > floppy drive -have tried memory sticks and iomega zip drive, without
> > >
> > > any joy...
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> > > Regards.
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