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Ubuntu Linux is a nice distro, but I think its a bit too heavy. Too many things installed. More than I need anyway. Now I know this much, that I can uninstall un-needed packages using apt, but the problem here is, I am not quite sure exactly which packages are un-needed. I run the Ubuntu...

I will try to explain in a simple manner. Had 1. Windows 8 2. Windows 7 as they were showing issues, to test, over these 2, I installed Ubuntu 12.04 The system is HP Pavilion laptop.I formatted both W8 and W7 partitions through Ubuntu. After uninstall 1. When tried to...

For the last two days my pc is quite unstable. I've been using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. I have a 320 gig Hdd which is split into C,D,E,F with 68,68,125,35 gig of memory allocated to each drive and there is no space left unallocated. I wanted to install ubuntu after seeing my pc unstable when i...

I have a strange but not a new problem. When I try to run Ubuntu 13.10 live from the USB on my new hp notebook with win 8.1, my notebook screen turns off. I Google this issue and found lots of similar posts on many sites but none of the solutions made any sense to me. I tried connecting my tv...

I have compaq 610. now looking for a replacement for next 3-4 years. I am in a Govt Service. I am Not much in gaming. Need to deal with large excel sheets, Internet, Intranet daily basis. I also travel a lot, so need a lightweight thing along with a good battery backup. Do not required a Great...

Its been a year and i have been loving my lenovo y500. Now i have to install ubuntu on it but when i searched the interent with "installing ubuntu in lenovo y500",i saw a lot of users complaining and the installation methods were also quite complex. Its necessary for me to use linux so i...

I have a IBM r52 laptop. I want to install a Linux operating system in this machine. The configuration is as follows : Processor intel centrino 1.7Ghz Ram 1.5 GB HDD space: 60GB Once i had installed ubuntu 8.10 in this laptop and the performance was superb but recently I installed latest...

As one of the Android Commandments says: "Thou shalt not use thine nexus unrooted." I present to you step by step guide for rooting and dual booting your Nexus 7. I bought Nexus 7 16 GB Wifi model from Flipkart a week ago. And I have to say, it is one of my most awesome investment that I ever...

I had a perfectly working Ubuntu 12.04 VM running in VmWare player with Windows 8 as the host OS. I sent the Ubuntu VM to sleep from the Ubuntu menu (not the suspend option in VMWare Player). When I wanted to resume work, I was unable to wake the virtual machine. I then copied the VM folder...

Ahoy sailors! Ever since Sailfish is known to us as an operating system not an actual “fish”, there were a lot of demos on YouTube; many people were literally amazed by the work of Finnish, some went: “This’ll be a failure like MeeGo-Harmattan” Which in fact wasn’t a failure and you’ll only know...

I have a dell Inspiron 2310 all in one pc (it has a dell mobo). I was trying to enter the boot menu but it required a password, I tried every password that I remeber but nothing worked. Any help? I have installed ubuntu alongside windows but at the startup it does show whether to choose between...

Hi, Please suggest me a lightweight distro Requirements -Easy to use [for a linux newbie] -Ultra Lightweight [Should be able to run on specs given below] -Must run smoothly,shouldnt lag -Attaractive/Modern GUI P.S. the apps/softwares for linux are dependant on the distro?? ex. if...

I am trying to get my AVerTV Volar Go TV tuner card working on Ubuntu. When i install the driver, i get error Running installer... Start to compile objects... make -C /lib/modules/3.8.0-26-generic/build O=/lib/modules/3.8.0-26-generic/build SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules make[1]: Entering...

Hi, does anyone know in which month's edition did Digit give Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in DVD? I searched 2012 and 2013 archives but found only the 12.10 one. Maybe I missed it. Does anyone know? Thanks in advance!

I installed ubuntu 13.04 a few days ago. after that i removed ubuntu (why?? i dont know). it was as follows - firstly i deleted the partition on which ubuntu was installed and merged it into another partition(Local Disk F). then i removed grub using easyBCD. and at last on F there was a folder...

Two days ago I was using windows 8 and it was pretty slow for 4gb ram and struck now and then. Yesterday it became too slow but I didn't install anything so I tried to install windows 7 with the CD. Everything went well until every time at last when windows has to boot it just keeps blinking...

Ubuntu Edge - The phone that BEATS all other phones in SPECS This is UBUNTU EDGE This is not a concept. This is actually happening. All Canonical (the force behind UBUNTU) needs is the funding of $32,000,000 by Aug 21. They have already raised $3,619,251 in 3 days (till the writing of this...

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I am a 12th pass student plan to do Btech in Computer Science. Here are my prefences- My primary purpose is programming.Hence the laptop should be fairly powerful.(i5 or higher with atleast 4gb ram) I have dual-booted my desktop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu and plan to do the same with my...

Hello Digitians, I have HP Pavilion G6-2313ax laptop. I have installed Windows 7 ultimate x64 on it. I have created 4 partitions, 3 primary and 1 logical and in that logical partition, i have created 4 partitions. Here is the screenshot of Disk Management I tried to install Ubuntu 13.04 x64...