On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:28 PM, E M pokieba...@gmail.com wrote:
I just had a look at the ubuntu site, along with some of the demo pics of
their OS. It seems from the demo pics, that the LibreOffice icons are
displayed. Not sure if that means ubuntu is bundled with LO ?
Linux as OS
Thanks for all the info Ed! There's a lot there, most of it I understand,
a bit I don't. But it gives me a much better understanding of what going
the Ubuntu route involves.
Thanks again,
Ed
300E
On 5 February 2012 15:17, Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:28 PM,
Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com writes:
As a side note, what are everyone's thoughts on what's going on with the
upcoming changes to Google?
Which ones? If you mean their privacy policy, they actually do mean
what they say, it's gotten easier. They had something like 15
different legal
Bah, I use gmail for almost all my email addresses. They are basically
SPAMming themselves, because I black / white list filter *everything*
They send me ads I *never* even see.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com writes:
As
Google for wubi, it allows you to install Ubuntu linux on a Windows
machine, and dual-boot. No permanent changes are made, and windows stays
available.
If the penguin isn't the thing for you, you can remove it via the
add/remove programs menu in control panel.
Walt
Soundslike you are saying
On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:28 PM, E M pokieba...@gmail.com wrote:
I've love to scrap my Vista OS, and use something like ubuntu, along with
my firefox, but being such a non techie guy, I have no idea how to do such
things to a PC.
From what I saw yesterday, once you install ubuntu, it has the
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
From what I saw yesterday, once you install ubuntu, it has the button
on the left (kind of like the Mac OS10 dock) that you click on and it
will give you a list of FREE software, including libreoffice, that
you can install. If you
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
From what I saw yesterday, once you install ubuntu, it has the button
on the left (kind of like the Mac OS10 dock) that you click on and it
will give you a list of FREE software, including libreoffice, that
you can install. If you
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
In place of an Ubuntu VM on winders, what do I have to do to put a XP
VM on an ubuntu machine?
Install Ubuntu, install VirtualBox, install XP on a VirtualBox VM.
That's one way, anyway. You do need the XP install media.
Allan
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1983 300D
Thanks for the how to for *nix VM.
got plenny of them. (XP cds, 2003 cds, even 95 new, sealed cds i'd
like to sell)
___
http://www.okiebenz.com
For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com
To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/
To
It uses the windows file system, and runs bare metal on the hardware.
Quite a nice setup.
Walt
On Feb 2, 2012 1:30 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Google for wubi, it allows you to install Ubuntu linux on a Windows
machine, and dual-boot. No permanent changes are made, and windows
Dieselhead wrote:
In place of an Ubuntu VM on winders, what do I have to do to
put a XP VM on an ubuntu machine?
You need a licensed copy of XP.
I have been doing nearly that for a number of years now - using
Debian rather than Ubuntu.
VirtualBox is what I'm using. I have my guest OS (XP)
Go download Ubuntu. You can partition the drive and use vista if you really
must, but Linux rocks.
Biggest drawback is streaming media from blockbuster or netflix. No support
for that. But you can do just about everything else. Software is truly
inexpensive and very robust. More fiddly
Dieselhead wrote:
In place of an Ubuntu VM on winders, what do I have to do to
put a XP VM on an ubuntu machine?
You need a licensed copy of XP.
I have been doing nearly that for a number of years now - using
Debian rather than Ubuntu.
VirtualBox is what I'm using. I have my guest OS
Dieselhead wrote:
I don't know how it works in virtualbox, with the MS on MS
virtual machines, (Using the M$ virtual PC) once I got one
running right (loaded and configured, updated etc.), I'd save
a copy as a template. Then you can just delete a VM that goes
nuts, and make a copy of the
I just had a look at the ubuntu site, along with some of the demo pics of
their OS. It seems from the demo pics, that the LibreOffice icons are
displayed. Not sure if that means ubuntu is bundled with LO ?
I really like the idea of a free open source OS, along with software that
works on the
On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:28 PM, E M pokieba...@gmail.com wrote:
I've love to scrap my Vista OS, and use something like ubuntu, along with
my firefox, but being such a non techie guy, I have no idea how to do such
things to a PC.
I don't like the latest iteration of Ubuntu. Is it 11.04 or
Google for wubi, it allows you to install Ubuntu linux on a Windows
machine, and dual-boot. No permanent changes are made, and windows stays
available.
If the penguin isn't the thing for you, you can remove it via the
add/remove programs menu in control panel.
Walt
On Feb 1, 2012 11:28 PM, E M
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