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wigglyi73 asked: I need to intall linux on a computer while retaining windows without doing a partitionless installation.

Tim P asked: I’m looking at getting a desktop system and like the idea (and cost) of having a linux operating system. I’m not wanting to program or do anything technical just do what I’d normally do in windows. i.e. surf internet, documents, spreadsheets etc. Is ubuntu the best version for me to use?
Thanks

James B asked: I need to link this linux setup to my website so people can sign up and control it using the control panel. any thing will help

Dustin asked: I want to make my own distribution, targeted at linux newbies making the transition to linux. I would prefer it to be based on debian or ubuntu due to the large amount of software for both, yet something my own. Like a custom boot screen, one centralized task bar, and if it is [...]

adesh asked: Hi, I am accessing internet behind a software firewall build on redhat linux. but unable to use webcam feature of yahoo messenger. any one know how to bypass proxy ?
Please let me know i will be very thankful to you.

Fngan asked: Im thinking about building a computer useing the same cpu,psu,gpu etc, but with new RAM, a new case and motherboard, and maybe a new hardrive, not sure yet, but when i finish building my comp. and start it up, can i just put in the linux CD and it will install it? or [...]

Weasel F asked: i want to install linux. I have 1 hard drive and i have already partitioned it and formatted it so i have 2 parts. one half had windows vista on it and the other is empty. if i install linux will it give me the choice to put it in the empty [...]

LUg. asked: The reason I ask this is, I have always considered Linux Mint to be Ubuntu on steroids.
What are your views on this ?

Enoch asked: I once had a 1-CD Linux distribution. I could boot from the CD and run the OS without installing it on the hard drive. It is very useful when you want to do some experiments in Linux but don’t want to mess up with all the (Windows) stuff on the hard drive. I [...]

Lei asked: For string comparison, it seems Linux sort assume number < lowercase < uppercase. However, the ASCII value is: number < uppercase < lowercase. Thus, the comparison function of Linux sort is different from that of C function strcmp(). Is this a bug, or it is designed in this way for some purpose?
BSD seems [...]

Marcus M asked: Please give a detailed explanation. I don’t have the slighest idea what Linux is.

sottoxvoce asked: I want to choose between Windows, Mac and Linux, but i need to know the pros and cons for each one.

15fsg546rge1rrheljh45hjr90459ty3 asked: I want to install Fedora on a separate partition alongside Windows. I currently have two partitions. a 1.8 GB partition, and the rest is allocated for windows. How do I shrink the partition for Windows in order to make a partition for Linux?

Matt I asked: I’ve been using Linux for a few years now and I’ve had a little play about with things on SourceForge but right now I want to go ahead and create one. How do I do this? Where do I start? I’ve got a few answers, but what do you think?
P.S. I’m also [...]

phoenix asked: There are rumors from with in the community is that windows 7 is going to be a lot more unix like than previous versions, it’s going to be a lot more modular.
See, MS have known for a long while that Linux and Darwin (OSX), are so much more efficient because they only ever [...]