free o/s

[lozz]

Just downloaded and installed lynux,

its free so thought id try it:

Lynux onbuto or sumink,

trouble is its asking for Drivers, Where do you get Drivers from that are Lynuxed based?
My M/b disk is for windows 7 only,.

[lozz]

Well.. that didnt last long, Ibroke it

installed the Graphics driver it asked for and ping, aload of Dead pixels apeard on the Monitor,
and now it wont boot up,

[FarmerPug]

can you reinstall linux and start over again, the graphics driver you got might have been wrong?

[lozz]

Tried mate and it wont have it,

iset it up on a 2nd partition looks like iwill have to delete it ,
the Driver it installed is one it located itself, looks like its not as Reliable as Windows,
shame Realy as it Worked well, looks very simalar to the Mac set up.,

[lozz]

Ive Worked out what it is:
ithink,

Its no good on some Lcd Monitors,
the Monitor carnt handle high Res, which is pretty crap realy, and idont fancy going back to crt,

[lozz]

http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new

[FarmerPug]

The thing i like about mac's os is that you don't need to install various drivers when reinstalling the OS, even a clean copy of OSX installs without any driver issues.

[lozz]

The thing i like about mac's os is that you don't need to install various drivers when reinstalling the OS, even a clean copy of OSX installs without any driver issues.

It wont work on pc tho will it.

or is the Software still available to Make it run on pc based systems?

[highlander]

It wont work on pc tho will it.

or is the Software still available to Make it run on pc based systems?

It's considered illegal, even if you buy a legal copy of MacOS X, because the software license entitles you to run one copy of MacOS X on Apple Macintosh hardware.

But yes, the software is still out there. Google "hackintosh" and see what you can find...

[lozz]

It wont work on pc tho will it.

or is the Software still available to Make it run on pc based systems?

It's considered illegal, even if you buy a legal copy of MacOS X, because the software license entitles you to run one copy of MacOS X on Apple Macintosh hardware.

But yes, the software is still out there. Google "hackintosh" and see what you can find...

Thanks

[FarmerPug]

a cousin had osx running on a desktop computer but it didnt work right at all. but using osx on a macbook is great the thing never gives any problems and its great to use

[rwb]

My experience of Ubuntu is that either it works perfectly or it's impossible to fix. Clearly you're in the latter case.

When I was using Ubuntu as my main machine, some releases would work, then updating would break stuff, then in the next update it would work again. Their development priorities seem to be to change stuff for the sake of it so that in their next 6-monthly release they have something new to show, rather than stability.

[lozz]

Cheers.

The problem seems To be Driver issues: Aspose it wouid be ok on a Pc that Windows has Failed on -just to Make it useable Tempoary
other than That .. icarnt see no use for it if it Carnt Handle driver changes,

[steve_earwig]

When I installed mint on this machine the only driver I had to install was for my nvidia graphics card (something to do with licensing ), it worked with the generic one ok but it was in the list when I opened the program for extra drivers (whatever it's called) so I installed it. I should add this is an antique p4 machine, no idea if this is the same for anything newer.

[gumby6371]

I've seen various versions running on older machines and without all the faff and bloat windows lugs around they were incredibly quick. Even the versions you can run from USB can be pretty snappy.
Unfortunately for me I run a lot of stuff that's windows only so it's not for me.
The major downside to open source is the lack of regulation and quality control, I guess if you find a distro that runs everything you need just stick with it and avoid the updates.