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Wait...why are you doing this? To show you're to cool for the other kids in your school?
I can see this being useful to do at school since most schools have ridiculous restrictions on the computers that don't let you do much of anything useful. I wish I knew about Linux in high school so that I could have done this, it would have allowed me to work on my websites and use things like VNC, VPNs and other things during my free time. After long enough I found out how to put/tretrieve from FTP sites using netscape anyway (since they had IE locked down), but it was still bollocksty. I wanted to work on some websites but had to use notepad and no real FTP client or brower.I can definitely understand someone wanting to do this if they want a real browser or more functionality, especially someone like a senior in high school who has a lot of free time during the day
Quote from: FliesLikeABrick on February 05, 2008, 09:09:24 amI can see this being useful to do at school since most schools have ridiculous restrictions on the computers that don't let you do much of anything useful. I wish I knew about Linux in high school so that I could have done this, it would have allowed me to work on my websites and use things like VNC, VPNs and other things during my free time. After long enough I found out how to put/tretrieve from FTP sites using netscape anyway (since they had IE locked down), but it was still bollocksty. I wanted to work on some websites but had to use notepad and no real FTP client or brower.I can definitely understand someone wanting to do this if they want a real browser or more functionality, especially someone like a senior in high school who has a lot of free time during the dayTHANK YouActually, thanks to the help of some popular mac user, anything but OSx leapard will make you uncool. I'm purely running linux on these to make them run faster, since the OS restrictions they put on there. And the Corel word perfect copies they use are so slow to load that I'd rather just use Fat Puppy and Open Office.I'm starting to swing towards Ubuntu though, is it possible to run Ubuntu in a "session" Just booting it up, doing your work, then shutting down and leaving the Windows OS as is? I don't want to get into bollocks for "Wrecking" a harddrive. They're very touchy on the computers they know nothing about.
Awesome, I managed to cram the whole OS onto a 1gig thumbdrive that gets no use otherwise.Thanks for the tut FLAB, you've been a big help. My hope in using linux on the school machines is a bit like sex, in and out hoping nothing got left behind that can be traced back to me.
It's an IBM ThinkCentre. They're all within 2-3 years old. I'm pretty sure you can boot ubuntu up from windows desktop, though, can't you? I could always burn it to a disc and use that...
I'm pretty sure Mac users like to show off when they announce that they're getting a Mac... but then they pipe down when they've bought it because they realize that they basically just payed $2000 for a fast office computer.
You don't use a windows emulator.A computer can be used for more than gaming.