???ummm???
im kinda new to this,
i really like the whole thing with having the cube of decktops on your computer
what computers have linux on it, the kind that you see in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRsLW0eet0
im going to buy a new laptop soon and i want to know all i can about it, and which computers have it
also are there any netbooks that come with it? like mini laptops? i have a hp mini and i see that some of the other hp minis have linux on it too but id doesnt look the same? any info?
please help!!!
so what latops come with this or how can i get it?
Answer
You will really like a Linux computer. Trust me, I speak from experience.
The cool 3-D cube effect is from a program called compiz-fusion. If you select the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, that program will already come installed and ready to go. You just have to enable it and tell it what special effects you want. This may or may not be the case in other varieties of Linux.
Compiz-fusion is much like Aero on Vista or Aqua on MacOS. It is, however, *much* lighter on resource use that either of those. It does require a graphics card, though. Make sure that your laptop has a Linux-compatible graphics card before you buy it! A lot of graphics cards are not Linux-compatible -- this is the single biggest issue I have had with Linux. Nvidia and ATI are your best bets, but even they aren't foolproof. You can check here:
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/drivers/8203-is-my-hardware-linux-compatible-find-out-here
For Ubuntu, specifically, these pages might also help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
(they are both a little out of date, though)
If you buy a laptop with Linux pre-installed, you will know that all of the hardware is compatible. You can do that from here:
http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
You can also buy a Linux laptop with Ubuntu from Dell (Michael Dell uses an Ubuntu laptop as his personal computer.). Dell also sells computers with no OS installed, ready to install Linux.
Of course, you can also download an Linux distribution and install it yourself. For example, you can get Ubuntu from here:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
Yes, there are Linux netbooks for sale, and you can also download versions of Linux that have been specifically optimized for netbooks. Here is an example:
http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr
Remember that netbooks often do not have graphics cards, so it may be impossible to run compiz-fusion on them.
As for why you have seen other Linux installations that don't look the same, that is because Linux, unlike Windows or MacOS is *very* configurable. There are multiple desktop environments from which you can choose, and most can be customized to a large extent. You can learn more about the different desktop environments here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_desktop_environments
The desktop environment in the video is called Gnome. It is the default one in Ubuntu Linux (though two others, KDE and XFCE, are also fully supported).
Unlike Windows, most varieties of Linux can boot from the CD-ROM drive, without installation. Some lightweight versions are designed to primarily run this way. Others, like Ubuntu and its cousins, are a lot more effective when installed. But the LiveCD gives you a preview of what they are like. Try downloading several LiveCDs of different flavors of Linux and playing with them. See which one you like best.
That's a lot of information. I hope it helps, instead of confuses you. Let me know if you have more questions!
You will really like a Linux computer. Trust me, I speak from experience.
The cool 3-D cube effect is from a program called compiz-fusion. If you select the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, that program will already come installed and ready to go. You just have to enable it and tell it what special effects you want. This may or may not be the case in other varieties of Linux.
Compiz-fusion is much like Aero on Vista or Aqua on MacOS. It is, however, *much* lighter on resource use that either of those. It does require a graphics card, though. Make sure that your laptop has a Linux-compatible graphics card before you buy it! A lot of graphics cards are not Linux-compatible -- this is the single biggest issue I have had with Linux. Nvidia and ATI are your best bets, but even they aren't foolproof. You can check here:
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/drivers/8203-is-my-hardware-linux-compatible-find-out-here
For Ubuntu, specifically, these pages might also help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
(they are both a little out of date, though)
If you buy a laptop with Linux pre-installed, you will know that all of the hardware is compatible. You can do that from here:
http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
You can also buy a Linux laptop with Ubuntu from Dell (Michael Dell uses an Ubuntu laptop as his personal computer.). Dell also sells computers with no OS installed, ready to install Linux.
Of course, you can also download an Linux distribution and install it yourself. For example, you can get Ubuntu from here:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
Yes, there are Linux netbooks for sale, and you can also download versions of Linux that have been specifically optimized for netbooks. Here is an example:
http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr
Remember that netbooks often do not have graphics cards, so it may be impossible to run compiz-fusion on them.
As for why you have seen other Linux installations that don't look the same, that is because Linux, unlike Windows or MacOS is *very* configurable. There are multiple desktop environments from which you can choose, and most can be customized to a large extent. You can learn more about the different desktop environments here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_desktop_environments
The desktop environment in the video is called Gnome. It is the default one in Ubuntu Linux (though two others, KDE and XFCE, are also fully supported).
Unlike Windows, most varieties of Linux can boot from the CD-ROM drive, without installation. Some lightweight versions are designed to primarily run this way. Others, like Ubuntu and its cousins, are a lot more effective when installed. But the LiveCD gives you a preview of what they are like. Try downloading several LiveCDs of different flavors of Linux and playing with them. See which one you like best.
That's a lot of information. I hope it helps, instead of confuses you. Let me know if you have more questions!
Linux Ubuntu Installation Probems!?!?
Hi there.
A Computer i used to use got a bad virus, i have taken all the stuff off it, however instead of installing Windows, i though i would venture into Linux.
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i have a Ubuntu Live install CD i gained from a PC magazine.
it is around version 9 i belive (just from memmory, if its wrong ignor)
The PC has the following specs.
- one stick of 512Mb RAM (either SD or DDR?)
- 2.6 ghz Celron
- 64MB of graphics, (agp)]
- 320GR HDD [1x 80 WINDOWS + 1x 250 = data] (IDE - or ATA)
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when i run the operating system, the quick installation of linux does not find any hard drives, therefore i can not install Ubuntu.
do i need a special file allocation type... or a fresh partitian...help?!
I can run windows, but its about 2x slower than normal. therefore an appropriate disk partitioner could be sugested. thanks/
The installation dick runs from a basic CD drive, could this be an issue, as the hard drives work normally under Windows. they are Western Digital barracudas. which i have never had issues with.
WOW. i appoloigse for such a terrible, yet somewhat humerous spelling mistake. supposed to say disk
Answer
If Ubuntu can't find the hard drives, it means something is seriously wrong with the computer. Ubuntu uses the same code as Windows to locate the hard drives on the machine, so something either messed with the BIOS or the boot tables on the hard drives are corrupted.
By the way, a tip about how Ubuntu's numbering system works. It's not version number. It's the month at day it was released. So 9.10 is the version released in October 2009. The current version is 10.04, released in April 2010.
If Ubuntu can't find the hard drives, it means something is seriously wrong with the computer. Ubuntu uses the same code as Windows to locate the hard drives on the machine, so something either messed with the BIOS or the boot tables on the hard drives are corrupted.
By the way, a tip about how Ubuntu's numbering system works. It's not version number. It's the month at day it was released. So 9.10 is the version released in October 2009. The current version is 10.04, released in April 2010.
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