Posts Tagged ‘operating system’

Alright, so I’ve gotten my hands on an older desktop and the previous user reformatted the hard drive. Therefore, there is no operating system at all! I want to install Linux onto this system but how do I do that? I heard something about installing Linux onto a thumb drive and having the BIOS boot with the thumb drive and it will install Linux? Could someone please help!

I don’t want to have Linux Ubuntu as my permanent operating system. I want to keep in on a CD, but which one do I need?

AMD joined MeeGo, the open-source Linux project led by Intel and Nokia to be an active contributor to the mobile operating system. – Advanced Micro Devices has joined the MeeGo open-source
project, to contribute quot;engineering expertise quot; to the next-generation mobile
operating system, the company said on Nov. 15.
Run by the Linux Foundation, MeeGo is a mobile operating
system for next-generation mobile platforms and e…

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RED Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the long anticipated release of its operating system, stressing its cloud features, performance improvements, and energy savings is finally hitting the market. – Red Hat launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to great fanfare on Nov. 10, stressing performance, Green IT, and virtualization capabilities.
Emphasizing that this was not just a product release, RHEL 6 is the “culmination” of 10 years of learning and partnering,” said Paul Cormier, Red Hats executi…

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Google denied Oracle’s claims of patent and copyright infringement related to its use of Java in Android. Google also alleged Oracle is singling out Android among open-source software. – Google denied Oracle’s claims of patent and copyright infringement related
to its use of Java in Android and countered that the company is singling out
its operating system after years of supporting open-source software.
Oracle, whose patents it controls through its Sun Microsystems acquisition e…

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I say Andorid is better because it is open source while i phone 4 g for instance it is limited like i tunes!!??

I got the free godaddy hosting for my domain i purchased with them. I made a mistake by choosing Windows as its operating system server, and now I want Linux.
Is there a way I can change it to Linux without getting a new host etc?Thanks!

I am currently trying to download the operating system Gnu so that I can run the program ddrescue to attempt to recover some files on a hard drive with a few bad sectors. I’ve gone to the sites where I am supposed to be able to download it from but i’m not clear on which file to pick. there are long lists of files all of which appear to be files i need but none of them seem to be a large enough file for an OS. Is there any site that will simply let me download an ISO and burn it to disk?

My Asus Eee pc right now has windows xp on it. But am trying to restore the Linux OS back on the pc, and i have the Support CD Rev.1.0 and the Linux Recovery CD Rev.1.0. so i just need someone to tell me how to go about installing back the Linux OS withe these CDs.