Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??

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): Debian or Ubuntu
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

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.org. It ranks
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.sourceforge.net/

Roy

On 28 March 2010 07:56, Lee <leo1949uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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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??
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> Regards.
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> Lee.
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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Joan Leach <jleach728@...> wrote:
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> > Did you see these?
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> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html
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> > http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3209
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> > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2006-07/msg00226.html
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> > http://featherlinux.berlios.de/booting.html
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> > http://paulski.com/zpages.php?id=1612
> > >>The one above is for SBM, which has support for those CD drives, too.
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> > Also, if you can do a frugal install to its hard drive in another
> computer with a Linux Live CD it might work.
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> > I hope some of these might help you out...
> > Joan in Reno
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> > --- On Sat, 3/27/10, Lee <leo1949uk@...> wrote:
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> > From: Lee <leo1949uk@...>
> > Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Sony Vaio C1XD linux install??
> > To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>
> > 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,
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> > > 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
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> > > that's another possibility. However, you mention a USB port. If you
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> > > have a USB thumb drive, many distributions can be installed (or used
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> > > 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
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> > floppy drive -have tried memory sticks and iomega zip drive, without
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> > any joy...
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> > Regards.
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