UBUNTU on LENOVO ESSENTIAL B590 15.6'' INTEL CORE I3-2348M 4GB 500GB FREE DOS

[dmichaff]

Hi Experts!
Please advice me which image to load for LENOVO ESSENTIAL B590 15.6'' INTEL CORE I3-2348M 4GB 500GB FREE DOS. Is it Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64-bit? Or should i go for latest?
If you can provide me the link I would appreciate it.

Regards
dmichaff

[Cheesemill]

Downloads are here...
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

You should use the 64-bit version of either 12.04 or 13.04, it's up to you to decide which one.

12.04 is supported until 2017 but has slightly older versions of software included
13.04 is only supported until January but has the latest versions of all of the included software.

12.04 may be more stable as there has been more time to fix any bugs found since it was released.
13.04 has a newer kernel so it has better support for new hardware.

At the end of the day it's your choice, I would suggest downloading them both and trying them out from a USB stick before you decide which one you want to install.

[dmichaff]

Thank you for your answer! I suppose UBUNTU can see all 8GB RAM ?? Any clue?

regards
dmichaff

[Cheesemill]

Yes.

64-bit Ubuntu can use up to 16384 GB of RAM :)

[dmichaff]

thank you!!