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Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
08-06-2008 10:44 AM
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Quote from: Professormoog Also I have been using Norton antivirus - will I need to anymore? someone reccomended Avast anti virus.
I have been very happy and secure using Norton but am happy to change on reccomendation. Is an anti virus still needed?
As far as your own Linux system goes, you don't need antivirus stuff at all. However, if you're concerned about the possibilty of transmitting nasties to your Windows-using friends, you would still need to scan outgoing emails/attachments. You may wish to consider ClamAV for that.
Regards .....
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
08-06-2008 1:22 PM
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Quote from: Professormoog Does anyone know of a suitable video editing package that rivals / superceeds Windows moviemaker & is cost free?
It is generally unusual to pay for anything in the Linux world (everything is licenced, but almost always free of charge).
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Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
08-06-2008 4:22 PM
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Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
08-06-2008 9:15 PM
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(especially Colintivy for starting this thread!) for your advice, information and help so far.
When my new hard drive arrives I will save all my files and boot up linux!
Thanks for your comment artificer, but I HATE vista!! it has crashed so many times & I don't feel secure with it, always worried that the system will crash during a five hour edit! I think this is astonishing as my computer has a pretty decent spec.
I will get rid of vista & give Linux a fair trial. I still have my boot discs for XP & vista so if I really can't get on with Linux I have a way back! but I doubt it I hope I stay with Linux
Matt
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
08-06-2008 9:34 PM
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Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
09-06-2008 2:12 AM
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Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
09-06-2008 8:12 PM
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I personally favour Ngs over forums, but there's a wide choice of both.
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
09-06-2008 9:20 PM
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I will keep you posted on my efforts. I always find it interesting reading other peoples struggles and solutions, so I will post mine
Thanks. Matt
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
11-06-2008 3:36 AM
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Can somebody tell ne how to configure the Wireless connection. The hardware test detects the Belkin Cardbus card as a Broadcom wireless device but I can only connect using Ethernet because I haven't configured the Wireless connection with my WPA Key.
Installation was a doddle and compared with Windoze XP Pro, this thing really flies!
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
11-06-2008 4:11 AM
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you may need ndiswrapper for your belkin card. madwifi is developing and there are nice things around the corner to make setting up wifi much more straightforward in linux.
the manufacturers are at last beginning to see that the linux market is worth investing in. some have taken up the open sourcerers' offer to write drivers for their kit - a money saver all round for the makers and a weight off their shoulders.
first try whatever configuration centre ubuntu has and see if it will offer ndiswrapper. it uses the windows driver and wraps it up so that linux can use if. one of the files will be .inf.
bon voyage.
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
11-06-2008 10:18 AM
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Of course WEP "security" is very easily breakable by anyone but a casual user who accidentally locks onto your signal (and uses it).
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Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
11-06-2008 6:41 PM
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Help!!
I happily received & backed up all my files onto my new hard drive, so far so good.
I inserted the ubuntu disc & got the start up screen as shown in the magazine (where I got the disc)
and when I selected - start or install Ubuntu it went not to the screen to start up but showed this message -
[ 0.756000] PCI: cannot allocate resolution region 1 device 0000:00:14.0
it just sat on that screen, nothing changing, no noises to indicate any installation via the disc...
I couldn't get out of the screen by pressing esc or ctrl alt del or any combination of f1 etc...
so I had to hard crash & reboot. it did the same all again.
so I tried a different option - memory test, it went to a blue screen & lots of numbers & things were going on, indicating that it was doing something. I let the test do 100% and pressed esc to reboot.
I thought I'd ask you helpful people here. The magazine also suggests using the - www.Linuxformat.co.uk ; forums.
can anybody help here at all!!
Thanks again
Matt
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
11-06-2008 7:14 PM
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=597411
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Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
11-06-2008 7:23 PM
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I had a look at the fora and it looked like a nightmare because there are at least 4 different chipsets used on the Belkin F5D7010 PC Card. Mine is the Broadcom 94306CB version and I didn't fancy a long quest throuh the night again.
So........ I raked around in my toybox for a TP-Link USB Wireless adapter which I bought from SVP for a paltry £6-99 ..... and plugged it into the USB 1.00 port on the ThinkPad X21 ..... and ...... it simply works!!! It asked for the WPA Key and then connected.
I am writing this on the Wireless connection.
p.s. Anybody want a Belkin PC Card????
Re: Migrating to Linux (Ubuntu?)
11-06-2008 7:35 PM
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Quote from: Wheel_nut I had a look at the fora and it looked like a nightmare because there are at least 4 different chipsets used on the Belkin F5D7010 PC Card. Mine is the Broadcom 94306CB version and I didn't fancy a long quest throuh the night again.
As far as I know this chipset is not supported on Linux. This means that you will have to use ndiswrapper and the Broadcom MS Windows driver files as shown here.
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