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Still wittering on.....
27-03-2009 12:30 PM
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Have now got an external hard drive with 3 partitions and have had a look at screenshots of PCLinuxOS 2009 - looks more Windows-ish. How would I go about downloading the new version onto the hard drive to test it? Don't want to do anything complicated and mess up my laptop.
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27-03-2009 1:55 PM
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NB Never used pclinux but this is supported by most/all distro's.
I would also have a look at my current favorite Linux Mint
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27-03-2009 1:58 PM
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Either keep an eye out for it on magazine covers, or you can download the whole thing from http://www.pclinuxos.com/. It will download a bootable ISO image, which you can burn to a CD with any writing software to make a bootable CD. It will boot into the Live CD mode, which will be slow, but won't change your existing installation. If you like it you click the installer on the desktop and it will take you through installing it.
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03-04-2009 8:05 PM
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At the moment they don't have exactly what I am looking for but they have some new Asus laptops coming in (different models) so I might give them a ring to see.
If I get a new laptop will it be easy to install the KDE desktop?
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03-04-2009 8:14 PM
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03-04-2009 8:36 PM
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03-04-2009 9:28 PM
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Quote from: poppy If I get a new laptop will it be easy to install the KDE desktop?
Installing the kubuntu-desktop package will get you KDE 4.x
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04-04-2009 8:47 AM
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04-04-2009 10:16 AM
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04-04-2009 10:37 AM
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I think that this distro will be better for me so am thinking of purchasing a laptop just to run this as it would be better installed and I don want to put it on my Vista laptop (the D partition is recovery). Will have to look around.
Set up Thunderbird OK and am browsing the Internet with no problems except that how do you get Google as your home page? Looked in Tools but can find the set this page as home page button.
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04-04-2009 11:58 AM
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Quote from: poppy Set up Thunderbird OK and am browsing the Internet with no problems except that how do you get Google as your home page? Looked in Tools but can find the set this page as home page button.
Edit -> Preferences (assuming you're using Firefox),
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04-04-2009 2:43 PM
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that i picked up cheap on ebay and i would expect that they are a lot cheaper now.
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04-04-2009 4:41 PM
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I am quite taken with PCLinuxOS - as soon as I saw the 'Radically simple' logo I knew that I would like it.
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04-04-2009 5:19 PM
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it really doesn't matter if the machine comes with an operating system because a) you don't pay the windows license and b) you can scrape it off and replace it with linux. most of my secondhand machines arrived with windows in situ and they are all now exclusively pclinuxos.
for any 'must have' windows applications, virtual box is a useful utility that allows the installation of windows into a virtual machine, followed by installation of the application. windows graphics can suffer in this mode however as virtual machines use 'pretend' hardware.
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04-04-2009 6:33 PM
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Sorry to be so dim but never done it before.
Tried the Virtual PC bit a few weeks ago but it was way over the top for me and what I really want is a single OS PC for simplicity, and also for the security advantage.
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