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I installed Ubuntu Linux on a computer that a friend gave me. It installed easily, works great and comes with Open Office and Firefox. Free computer and free OS plus browser and office suite. Nice! Trying music apps next.

They have a version for an AMD 64. Compaq AMD 64 computers are so cheap it is tempting me.

keep us updated on those linux music apps! I've been waiting to set a box up.. but just haven't heard enough successful accounts to do one myself.

The thing is that it is an old computer. A Pentium II. I'm not sure how well it will perform. I'm thinking about having it as a file server.

You could always check out Muse & Rosegarden and give us your opinion

Damn, I bet SFP would run fast in there even with that old CPU.. if it were only possible

I've got Ubuntu installed on my laptop too. Amazingly, all drivers for the graphic display, ethernet etc, all were installed successfully. Supercollider is the app to try.

Bingo, if I install it and tell it not to delete the current OS will it install a boot menu allowing me to boot either OS at startup? If so I will install it on my laptop as well.

On 2006-05-02 06:17, braincell wrote:
Bingo, if I install it and tell it not to delete the current OS will it install a boot menu allowing me to boot either OS at startup? If so I will install it on my laptop as well.

Of course. On my laptop, a Ubuntu boot program loads first that has my Windows partition as an option. I also have a small FAT 32 partition which can be seen by both OSes and can be used to access files from both.

So I guess it does not see NTFS then?

No.

You can try this for NTFS support within Linux:

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

Haven't tried it since I don't run Linux on any of my machines at home, so I don't know how well it works.

Some distributions might also come with some read-only NTFS module that's disabled by default.

Also check http://www.demudi.org/ for a nice music/audio-specialized Linux distribution. I think they have a LiveCD version, so you can try it before installing it on your machine.

My friend installed it on his laptop with XP and now he can't boot either. He's not too upset about it though.

there are a lot of bootmanagers out there. even xp has it`s own. perhaps you just have to format track 0.

I have the GRUB utility loading first. Basically, XP should be installed first and free space should be left for two Linux partitions. Then the Ubuntu installer will install properly.

It would not install on my laptop, I just got a black screen before installing finished but my friend got it installed on his older laptop. The funny thing is he has a Sony VAIO and it said it couldn't install some time zone thing during the Ubuntu installation which I figured was the DRM on the DVD player. It now won't play most DVDs. I noticed that it is not as easy to use as a Mac or XP either. If I was making a computer for someone who is new to computers and just wants to surf the web, email and use Open Office. I would give them Unbuntu.

DVD region can be changed in the Device Manager in Windows. However that can only be changed a couple of times (see the image).

The funny thing is he has a Sony VAIO and it said it couldn't install some time zone thing during the Ubuntu installation which I figured was the DRM on the DVD player

That could be the time synchronization module, that fails on my laptop too because I am not connected to the Internet. I wish I knew how to disable that.

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DVD region can be changed in the Device Manager in Windows. However that can only be changed a couple of times (see the image).

I doubt that. Jf you got a "wrong" firmware, it could be changed as often as you like as far as I experienced.