:idea: You might find it easier to transition slowly, trying out several and then using both XP and Linux. Multi-boot means to have two (or more) operating systems on one computer. 8) You can have it all! Try out one or more - "live", before you install - with USB flash drive or plastic di...

I'm currently using Windows XP. Can I just use Windows (drag, drop, burn) to make my bootable CD/DVD or will I need a specific type of software? Windows will make a CD/DVD by dragging in Explorer to the CD drive but will this do the same job as a fancy application and make the disk bootable? No, Wi...

(Looks like I'm not the only one helping - take what you need.) 1. Use simple wisdom. Make a list of what you need, and another list of what you want. Find backup method(s), make sure every restore procedure(s) actually works. First . Remember, like all material things, any system can fail. 2. Find ...

Anything that has been connected to the internet puts everything else it might be connected to at risk. That's life. Even with Linux. That said, few internet security software vendors will drop XP support when Microsoft does. And even Microsoft will keep updating their Security Essentials with malwa...

If you find J7, you can own the computer you paid for. Documentation with a motherboard diagram, perhaps from Toshiba Support or their forums, might help. ............. Barring that, save time and hire help. Some BIOS quirks include "recognizing" a USB flash drive as USB-HDD or USB-ZIP or ...

edoc wrote:... My son & friends ... looking at the Palemoon browser (Microsoft only). ... WDYT?

Now that portable 32-bit and 64-bit Linux builds are available at SourceForge, Pale_Moon (with several Add-Ons) is my (fancy) browser of choice.
(I use Dillo for safe+simple.)

IF you can get the computer to boot from USB, YUMI can pack quite a few puppies onto one USB flash drive/pen/stick. It usually uses syslinux, but can use GrUB4dOS as well. I once packed a couple dozen puppies on one 4Gb chip. That was fun! Note: some puppy-specific boot parameters help, some hinder...

Should there be duplicate files - different size/date, same name/location?

These were never intended to create eternal monopolies for irresponsible corporations. Originating artists are rarely able to retain ownership of their rights. Instead of promoting more creativity, we get suppression and trolls. Reform would be a good thing.

Yes, many people have a mix of talents that doesn't gel with geekness. So? They work with a GUI, they use mouse and menus, they avoid digging deeper. Without them, how many geeks would have a job or useful social role? But if vendors make small embedded computer modules that cannot be modified or ma...

Posted: Tue 06 Nov 2012, 14:36 Finished downloading precise 5.4. Testing it reveals several problems. On first boot it refused to save the session. After asking for save file name it rebooted without saving session. Next time I ran wmreboot in terminal but this time it worked properly. :? Will try ...

I started with an eMachine with XPsp3 used GPartEd to resize and add partitions Puppy 5.1 (from PenDrive) installed GRUB-Legacy - to the MBR Mint 10x64 installed GRUB2 - to its partition I found Mint's vmlinuz and initrd, added a entry to Puppy's menu.lst So far, they're cooperating (whew) :) I wish...