While rummaging around in some stuff Probester has here I ran across a copy of Linux Ubuntu. I don't have anything to try it on but it sounds cool... Anyone know about this version?

I see from Tral's link in another thread that Chris Pirillo likes it...

I had it running on an old P3 that someone gave me. It only had 128 mgs of Ram and it ran great. The hard drive crapped out and I didn't want it on any of my good machines since I was going Mac and gave my alienware and the homebuilt to Mark.

I think that I may dual boot this thing when I upgrade the hard drive. It may be a little while...

Ubuntu has a live cd version I think that you can boot from without installing it on the hard drive

I tried that but so far it's not booting from a CD. I think my bios is goofed up.

You need to go in your bios and tell it to boot from your cd first. Most of the time the boot up sequence is set to boot from the disk drive first by default

Yeah, I think that the old floppy is the first to try, but it will pause to read if I have a DVD in the drive. It carries on when there isn't nothing bootable on the DVD. It doesn't treat CD's that way. It acts like it doesn't even try...

Check the cd image Tor, if you burnt the ubuntu file as a single .iso file on the cd instead for using a burning program to extract and burn the contents of the iso, that could be the problem too

This is the retail package disk Probester had. It should work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPecBxM2f6c
Vista vs Ubuntu

Not bad. I need to get Ubuntu running too and get it folding.

http://www.taimila.com/?q=node/11
Linux desktop imitating OSX

phui accept no imitations

Sure is odd , how every one that doesnt use Mac OS X sure wants their OS to copy OS X .
Just bite the friggin bullet and buy the best..... A MAC !!!!!!

It must be a box store conspiracy.