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I don't think linux has been left behind but sort of taken a different route than windows and mac. The CL is a great tool and the developers know this. I believe this is why linux is the way it is,...

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for what he plans on using it for you cant really go wrong with that dell

what os does he plan on installing?

will he be upgrading to vista or 7?

i started up xp today took 5 minutes once i logged in to be able to do anything and then i went to shut it down and got 3 different errors.

thats just 1 reason

sorry for my double post

arch for moderately experienced?


i would put it in the same class as gentoo

yeah i noticed how it keeps getting more and more user friendly, but besides that nothing really like windows.

i never said people dying was funny. The fact that people are throwing this so out of proportion.

i never said people dying was funny.

how about egypt.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_he_me/ml_egypt_swine_flu
how does that stop transmission from person to person?

sorry if i offended you.

So over the past week there has been alot of commotion about the swine flue but how concerned should we be about this.

Today my sister came home from school with a few sheet of paper from the...

microprocessors

im no expert but what i sound like to me is some sort of power management turning off your wifi in order to save battery. try checking your power management settings see if you can fix it there.

i like the idea of building your own system, i had a dell from 1999 or so with 128mb ram with a 2ghz p4 and installed arch+lxde it ran well and idling only use around 60 mb i was really impresses.
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I agree, seemed very opinionated.

I also had trouble finding a package. I installed a .deb that i downloaded online and it took me a while to find it i guess the search was case sensitive. To me this kinda defeats the purpose of a...

looks good

yeah it sounds like a good idea but i don't think it would be practical to turn ubuntu into something like this because not all users would want features like that. so perhaps a derivative aimed at...

I don't know of any os that is 100% "people ready" by your standards. ubuntu can do those things that you list just with a little configuring, so i don't quite understand what you are asking. Im...

i am unable to connect and download pacages from the us.archive.ubuntu.com

not sure why

thought i solved it but i guess not


this is kinda weird i just ran sudo apt-get update --fix-missing...

has support for 8.10 ended?

i ask this because i just tried to install a package from the repository and it just hangs when trying to connect:
could not connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:80...

i bought this comp from dell when they first started selling the computers preloaded with ubuntu, and at the time it cost a little less than a windows computer of similar specs. I believe it was like...

why does it matter? If some one is concerned about trying something different, and learning then why are they leaving windows to trying linux?

ok thanks