Anyone using Ubuntu? - 17th Feb 2008 10:51pm
I can't get past the WGA on my "other" copy of XP so I installed Ubuntu as an alternative. What a pain, it refuses to work with my wireless cards, USB ports, video card, sound card and network cards! It works with the video card built in to the motherboard.
It looks OK but just doesn't work. It is meant to have an aero-type interface so it can do the same sort of things Vista can with the graphics. It's also free if you have a google.
Has anyone else managed to get it going? I am trying to use it on a 5 year old ASROCK motherboard and XP3000 chip with 512MB. 550w PSU, two DVD drives, 2 HDs. Before WGA the PC used to run XP with no problem. With XP everything worked.
(For this message I'm on a laptop with XP.)
If you have Ubuntu going let me know wat you're using. I noticed DELL are selling PCs with it now as an alternative to Vista and XP.
It looks OK but just doesn't work. It is meant to have an aero-type interface so it can do the same sort of things Vista can with the graphics. It's also free if you have a google.
Has anyone else managed to get it going? I am trying to use it on a 5 year old ASROCK motherboard and XP3000 chip with 512MB. 550w PSU, two DVD drives, 2 HDs. Before WGA the PC used to run XP with no problem. With XP everything worked.
(For this message I'm on a laptop with XP.)
If you have Ubuntu going let me know wat you're using. I noticed DELL are selling PCs with it now as an alternative to Vista and XP.