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07/31/2010 03:56:32 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by JH:
For anyone wanting to try out a variety of Linux distros, here's the best place to start: //www.distrowatch.com Down the right hand side you'll see the most popular distros ranked by number of downloads.
If you want to play around with Linux without installing to your hard disk, you can boot from a Live CD, or you can install something like VirtualBox under Windows, and run your Linux OS inside there: //www.virtualbox.org/
Booting Linux from a Live CD is quite addictive (it doesn't touch whatever operating system you have installed on your PC, it runs everything from the CD)
Ubuntu is good, I also love Mint, VectorLinux, and Mandriva |
The link I posted above will install live distros on a flash drive or CD. I like DistroWatch, it's a great way to sort through the 40672304780254023763 distros. |
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08/14/2010 02:39:55 PM · #27 |
I have a laptop that I don't use for anything so I decided to give Ubuntu a whirl on it. I have been quite impressed with it so far. I may install the netbook version on my Asus soon as well. I have found that the digiKam sofware is quite capable for minor photo editing tasks and I think it would be a good solution for a netbook system.
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08/14/2010 04:58:10 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
I have a laptop that I don't use for anything so I decided to give Ubuntu a whirl on it. I have been quite impressed with it so far. I may install the netbook version on my Asus soon as well. I have found that the digiKam sofware is quite capable for minor photo editing tasks and I think it would be a good solution for a netbook system. |
Yeah, GIMP is pretty slow on even the best setups (on a 3.0 GHz quad-core with 4 GB RAM, it ran like 10x slower than Photoshop CS4)... Glad you found a basic editor. There are also online editors by Google (Picnik, Picasa) that work well, and I think the only requirement is that you're running a compatible browser with the latest version of Flash Player or Java (I don't remember which). |
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