The post is about whether or not linux is viable on old laptop, not about a third rate rip off OS being better than Linux, if you wish to worship...
As I said, we humans have bugs so we create bugs, except in one case, it easy to fumigate while in the others heavy expense has to be paid to do...
If BSOD king is a dumb comment, dumber is ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ making a generalized statement like LINUX is buggy. Thats downright silly in...
We humans are buggy and we create bugs, once thats accepted, things go back to normal. I use Linux not to compile but to empower.
Nope, that title aptly belongs to the BSOD king aka M$ ;) People like the blue sky, it has a calming effect on the nerves. :D
Yep yep, UNIX Linux are all bug heaven, stay away from them if you value your life, let us Linux geeks rot in that bug infested cesspool.
As a long time x64 bit user, from early days of AMD CPUs, I have to agree with Nick here.
ldxe Lubuntu flies on my ancient Vaio with 512MB RAM and old Pentium-III so it will run fine on your mom's laptop.
Most browsers like Opera, Chrome and FF have their own privacy and cookie manager so those can be cleaned out right from the browser itself.
I recently bought a AMD Fusion powered ASUS netbook, the 1015B has a 1GHz dual core AMD CPU with integrated ATI 6250 graphic card called the ALU...
Thank you, same goes for subjective preferences to so called issues of browser security, anyone using Google Chrome shouldn't talk about security....
That dress and that chick is Indian, very common look up in North India.
Opera is subjectively worse in your opinion cause it doesn't meet your expectations, otherwise its an excellent suite, the best out there. Google...
IE is closed source as well and so far Opera's record against patching exploits have been the best of all, IE can't even be in the same league and...
Closed source but Secunia's ratings are superb for Opera, here it really doesn't matter, Opera maybe closed source but it has to deal with fully...
Ubuntu flies on this AMD Netbook whereas in Windows 7 I almost returned it, enough said. Ubuntu works right out of the box with this fairly new...
I use BB latest from their site on Natty and am yet to run into any issues. With g-conf cleaner, the Unity bar disapperars but after a reboot, all...
Ocky its Ubuntu 11.04 x64, don't think my little netbook can handle Kubuntu, my 8 core desktop runs Kubuntu but LTS flavor.
Java on latest FF.
Yes I know, have seen her on covers somewhere.
Current release 2-20011 :((
Opera, everything works, excellent mail client, all in one app, no need to run separate apps. Speed is good, security is excellent.
Wasasup, haven't heard from you in a long while, hope you are doing well.
The omission of synaptic is unfortunate but then there is always good old and super fast cli. I have used software center and haven't had any...
Thanks Trespasser, good to see all of you are still around.
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