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You need at least 2 (empty, unused) partitions to install any linux. They can be primary or logical, it doesn't matter. /swap has its own filesystem, called "linux swap" and the root partition should be ext3 or reiserFS. The / partition is the root partition that contains the entire file...

Here is the latest news: tux500.com - Tux Takes His Place on Chastain Motorsports Indy Car There is now a small "tux" on the nose of the car. :D

A new linux marketing project has started and it needs donations. The TUX 500 projects seeks to be a major sponsor of a car that will be running in the INDY 500 on May 27th. They need $350,000 USD to become a major sponsor and have the linux name attached to the team (ie "team linux") but only...

Then just disable it in the BIOS, if you can. Do you still have the floppy cable attached to the motherboard?

fd0 is your primary floppy drive. Is there a disk in the drive? It's not often that floppy drives give off I/O errors when there is no disk in the drive. You may also try and disconnect your floppy drive. It's possible that the drive is toast anyway.

The "desktop CD" is a liveCD, which is the default download. You put in the CD then you boot into kubuntu and you can play with it. There will be an "install" icon on the desktop, this is what you click when you are ready to install to the harddrive.

True, you can play with it without installing anything, via the liveCD option. I would highly recommend this anyway so you can test your hardware prior to installing. Did you check the MD5 sum of the burned CD or DVD? You can get this information from the download page. That will check the...

x86 would be the right version. AMD64 should work also. See this page for feisty beta. **EDIT** forgot to mention there is no need to download the DVD. The CD will work fine, for future reference.

What edition of kubuntu are you installing, ie x86, AMD64 and so on. Does this edition match your processor type? If they don't match, then it won't install. What are the errors exactly? Kernel errors can be caused by many things.

Most distrobutions are centered around a chosen interface but you can change to whatever you like best.

Linux has many interfaces, not just one like windows and mac. For desktop environments, there is GNOME, KDE and XFCE. Also there is a host of window managers, see "Window Managers for X". If you don't want linux, look into PC-BSD or desktopBSD. Both are based on freeBSD, the basis for the...

With 'good' being relative, the only thing I can ask is what do you want from it? For the right uses, its good. Why wen't you impressed with linux? What distrobution did you try? The world of free operating systems is huge and there are many, many options. I would say for a free 'windows...

Yes, the point is to create a free OS that can run DOS and windows programs. I'm not sure about DX but I wouldn't count on it (can't find any reference on the website). To explain better to those that are skeptical about this project, read this blurb from the FAQ: That makes it a really...

Looks really promising.

Maybe try 'tvtime'. It is specifically designed to be a tv viewer only. It should work with frequencies too.

I first heard about ReactOS many years ago and it is a very slow moving project. It may even be too ambitious to gain much ground. It is completely legal and all GPL. It's a Windows work-a-like, just like Linux is a UNIX work-a-like. I would like to try it out some day for some of my old...

openSSH is the default SSH system in freeBSD. Take a look at the manual page on openSSH, if you need to set it up. It's very simple.

If synaptic lets you search for package discriptions, seach for anything this reference to "microsoft". The debian package search is down, is I can't look for it. The package in FreeBSD is called msttf. It may also be possible that the package you installed did not install the fonts...

Just a guess, but I think you need msfonts. The debian package is called msttcorefonts.

See the rc man page here. You only need to put an executable script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory. FYI, it is not usually a good idea to put custom scripts in the /etc/rc.d If you follow the instructions in the man page, this should not be too difficult.