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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
It won't work on my laptop, but I think it works on my desktop. What is a good type of Linux to work with for beginners? All I have is Ubuntu at the moment but I'm willing to grab my hands on anything. Also, how exactly do Live CD's work if they don't save anything onto your computer? If there a way to make them become permanent? Also - any good websites for references/manuals? TANSK. brb trying dis out - if I don't log in for a week i fucked something up.  | ||
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Wurzelbrumpft
Germany471 Posts
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cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
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micronesia
United States24785 Posts
On November 18 2008 04:40 Wurzelbrumpft wrote: was with teamliquid consisting of girl and computer threads I think computer threads stands to reason... btw I'm noticing your recent blogs are all 100% content related and dry lol... can't blame you. | ||
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CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
ubuntu is your best bet for a beginner's look at linux. if you get really into it you may one day graduate to debian | ||
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
My desktop computer has problem reading disks (my father was asking me why I fucked up the computer so bad that it won't read his music CDs so I slapped a bitch.) I put the Ubuntu Live CD in, restarted the computer. And nothing came up. And I wish I knew why it didn't work on my laptop. By the way, the laptop is vista incase anyone was wondering. Any solutions for Mr. Labby? This is kind of queer because I was looking forward to feeling elite for once in my life. | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
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MER
Bulgaria125 Posts
On November 18 2008 05:11 heyoka wrote: Is it checking the cd drive on boot or loading straight from hard disk? You might need to tell it to load from the CD when its booting this^^. If youre still not able to run it, try searching in ubuntuforums.org, maybe someone has had the same problem. | ||
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ToT)SiLeNcE(
Germany590 Posts
Get 8.10 Intrepid Ibex from www.ubuntu.com Then just boot your laptop from that cd and it should work. 8.10 supports much more hardware than 6.06 does (obviously). This may help a big deal  | ||
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distant_voice
Germany2521 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On November 18 2008 06:11 distant_voice wrote: intrepid ibex is awesome. other distros that are good for beginners are mint and opensuse from what I hear. mint ist 99% ubuntu though. Ubuntu is a very accessible distro for a first-time user, and can still be very usable for a high-level user (I know someone who develops software at a National Laboratory and his entire group is standardized on Ubuntu). I've heard that Mint has poorer support than Ubuntu (since the project is a spinoff, and I believe smaller). I've only used OpenSuse briefly, but that would definitely be my first choice if I needed to do something Red Hat-related. BTW, I use Ubuntu.  | ||
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barth
Ireland1272 Posts
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guga31bb
United States23 Posts
On November 18 2008 05:35 ToT)SiLeNcE( wrote: You should grab the latest version of Ubuntu first of all. Get 8.10 Intrepid Ibex from www.ubuntu.com Actually Intrepid has been pretty buggy for a lot of people so far. For someone who's just beginning, I'd recommend Ubuntu Hardy Heron - it's much more stable and is a long-term release, so it will be supported for a couple years. This is especially true for people with laptops as wireless networking in Intrepid has been pretty bad. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
Of my head, the centrinos are supported well and grab 8.04 hardy if you want to get into it. I have intrepid atm and it's awesome but not something recommended for absolute beginners. | ||
GHOSTCLAW
United States17042 Posts
The main reason why I would recommend ubuntu is because there are many people who use it, so if you have a problem, you can probably google for a solution and find it (which you can't do for lots of other smaller distros) | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
also look up all your hardware on ubuntu lists, make sure nothing is blacklisted.. just before you go bashing your head in because something doesn't work | ||
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Navane
Netherlands2757 Posts
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
On November 18 2008 08:04 Navane wrote: yep. stick with the latest ubuntu. care to elaborate why that's a good idea? | ||
riptide
5673 Posts
http://www.puppylinux.org/ The .iso is just 94mb btw. Of course, it's a little less user friendly than Ubuntu, since most of the apps they ship are minimal implementations of the stuff you need. Instead of OpenOffice.org, for example, they ship Abiword, which is a stripped down, smaller word processor. Still, if you like using live CDs, it's certainly worth a shot. Also, go for Ubuntu 8.10, it's bound to have support for more devices than 8.06. Linux is a great experience, and can save your skin many a time if you know how to use it right. Take me, for example - before Linux, I'd have been toast without a hard disk. Now I'm just browsing TL like normal. Thanks FOSS! | ||
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
Problem though is my internet won't work. I read the website and I followed the instructions word per word. Added a wireless connection, put in my SSID: "linksys" - apparently. Which according to the guide was the only information I needed. My router is SSID-roaming enabled according to the 192.168.1.1 page. But it still won't give me my internets. WTF. HALP. | ||
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