I'm not trying to convince you. The OS is loaded to the pc's memory and runs from there, primarily; the settings are saved at power down and the boot time is consistent with XP Professional. I use it to surf the web and watch videos on a cheap Acer brand P4 machine; performs as well as my Dell P4 4 gig with 2 Meg Ram running XP. The older versions of linux were not as reliable; Red Hat 7.0 was the best of the mainstream versions (IMO). Puppy Linux will run similarly to Ubuntu but uses less memory but can be a bit buggy. From what I understand, it is possible to run a virtual pc from a thumbdrive including the apps; I don't know the details but it allows for creating a familiar computing environment while on a foreign machine.
--- On Mon, 4/4/11, Old Grumpy <grumpygubbe@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Old Grumpy <grumpygubbe@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re : Ubuntu
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 4, 2011, 10:46 AM
But it's much slower running from the thumb drive or Live CD rather than importing it onto the hard drive. But if your HD is bust or you just want to check Ubuntu out without changing anything - way to go. 2011/4/4 john public <brad_macaboy1234@yahoo.com> | I fired up my windows machine, went to the bootable Ubuntu site, put a thumbdrive in the pc and downloaded the OS. Took the thumbdrive out of the pc, stuffed it into my lapdrive USB port and the laptop fires up using Ubuntu, from the thumbdrive. The laptop has a non-functioning harddrive that isn't worth the $ to fix. Couldn't be more simple. BTW, a bootable version can be burned to CD that can be used to fire up your pc, also; since it cannot be written to, it is a safer way to access bank accounts, tranfer funds etc. (IMHO, of course). --- On Sun, 4/3/11, briankk <briankk@att.net> wrote:
From: briankk <briankk@att.net>
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re : Ubuntu
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 11:50 AM
| This what I meant by "A certain amount of hand-holding.."
When I upgraded from open SUSE 11.3 to 11.4, I had to find and go to the site that provides the upgrade, download the file, specifying the appropriate format (12 hr download), then start the CD burner, insert a new DVD, burn the upgrade, remove the burned disk, and re-start the computer. Upon re-boot, access the Bios settings, change the startup device from the HD to the CD drive, re-boot again, insert the DVD in the CD drive, and follow the upgrade instructions as provided on the screen. When the upgrade is finished, re-boot again, re-select the hard drive as the first boot device, close the Bios, re-boot, and Bob's your uncle.
The majority of folk who are pissed at MS and would like to change, don't even know what I'm talking about, let alone how to do it, and there' the problem...
bk
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 8:26 AM
THANX ! .
This sounds interesting but I dunno how to do it.... the startup device from |
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