Playing with Ubuntu 11.10

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Playing with Ubuntu 11.10

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Inspired by DaveInPitt I spent a few hours tooling around, then composed a record of my yet-early experiences with Ubuntu.
I rebooted on the host machine, this Compaq Presario CQ62 64-bit Windows Home Premium.
Then I took the CD to the old Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop and installed it there. Even *I* could get it working first time off.
I've not been able to get it up on the neighbour's Dell beige Box, but that is a 500GB system and both DaveInPitt and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements say I need a gigabyte.
More later ... my record is incomplete because i don't yet know how to do a PrtScr equivalent in Ubuntu, and I don't want to go ahead until I can record my footsteps. And stumbles.

Thanks again to DaveInPitt for pushing me into the future. :clapping:
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ChrisGreaves wrote:Thanks again to DaveInPitt for pushing me into the future.
Strictly speaking, Unix is the past - and predates MS-DOS (and quite probably CP/M!)... Whether it is also the future is a matter for discussion.
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John Gray wrote:Whether it is also the future is a matter for discussion.
Quite so, John. I meant it in the sense that I have been dragged kicking and screaming into something I should have investigated years ago.
I think of all the old machines that have passed though my hands over the years, each one with the WinXp CD "lost" or "missing" ....
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ChrisGreaves wrote:I think of all the old machines that have passed though my hands over the years, each one with the WinXp CD "lost" or "missing" ....
Why was that a problem? For any PC, you only need to have available a small number of CDs or images for XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Center: retail and OEM variants. If you have the Product Key/CoA then you are 'good to go'!
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John Gray wrote:Why was that a problem?
Well, I still think/thought in terms of one genuine copy of Windows per machine, and that meant a certified, hologrammatic(?) CD per machine.
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As I said earlier, within limits, WIndows CDs are interchangeable since the files are the same. The important sine qua non is the Product Key on the CoA!
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John Gray wrote:sine qua non is the Product Key on the CoA!
So each machine should be loaded with a unique and purchased product key, right? Which i have not. I have 3 CDs, thus 3 product keys, one for each of my machines and none to spare for other machines.
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John's remark was intended for the situation that someone has kept the product key, but somehow lost or misplaced the CD. In that case, you can take *any* installation CD for the same Windows version to reinstall Windows, and use the product key.
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HansV wrote:John's remark was intended for the situation that someone has kept the product key, but somehow lost or misplaced the CD. In that case, you can take *any* installation CD for the same Windows version to reinstall Windows, and use the product key.
Thanks Hans, and John both. Got it now. (still on my first coffee)
My poor terminology. I equate a Windows CD with the jewel box or sleeve bearing the product key.
My truants "borrow" a CD from a friend and then have a system which I (say I) can't repair because they don't have proof that they have a legal copy. (these are the same people who can't afford their own copy of Windows/Office, yet drive to my place in a fully-loaded 8-cylinder Toyota Camry)

Now, if we've exhausted the topic of Windows Licensing, about that Ubuntu ... :laugh:
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When I built my new PC, I thought I'd go with Linux rather than shell out for windows, so I tried Linux Mint. This is a much more "Windows"-like experience than the current incarnation of Ubuntu. The installation experience was excellent, with all the hardware working out of the box (the video card needed a driver from the "experimental" section to show off it's true beauty) and everything installing nicely in one pass. Once I'd installed LibreOffice, Opera and Thunderbird, it was just like the real thing :grin:.

Unfortunately, there were still a handful of things that I needed windows software for (mainly games for my grandson), so I went the Windows 7 multiple reboot and download of drivers install route in the end.

But see my post earlier in this forum regarding my netbook, which still runs peppermint ICE quite happily.
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jonwallace wrote:But see my post earlier in this forum regarding my netbook, which still runs peppermint ICE quite happily.
Hi Jon, and thanks.
I glanced at your earlier thread when I was searching for posts on Ubuntu, but ICE meant nothing to me then.
I'd like to try ICE, if only for the luverly green screens (grin), but can't easily find any statement of hardware requirements in the user guide or installation notes.
Do you have an idea of minimum RAM required?
Thanks again.
And yet more thanks.

(later) http://peppermintos.com/guide/install/ Suggests it can run the 32-bit on a 512 MB machine.
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John Gray wrote:Strictly speaking, Unix is the past
Alas, but Linux is not Unix. ;) It's Unix based, but it's not Unix, and Ubuntu is a Linux based distribution.

In all the time I've been around web hosting for the past 10 years, I've only ever seen *one* server rack running Unix. All the rest usually run Red Hat Linux.