What is this Black XP you speak of?

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It is some silly version of XP that comes prepackaged with all sorts of scene releases.

It really isn't worth it.

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Both of my laptops have 2 different Linux distributions. I'd say Ubuntu is better than Fedora only because it was much easier to locate drivers.

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Welcome to the forum.

And yes, Ubuntu > Fedora.

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I'm kind of a Linux n00bz0rz, so I was wondering, IF I was to go to Linux is there ANY possibility of my messing up something and completely messing up my computer....or losing all of my files that I have saved? I only have one computer, and if I mess up...I'm f..ked.


Really thats the only thing that is stopping me from trying Linux

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Alright let's see if anyone here can help me with this.

My laptop is currently dualboot (XP & Ubuntu). Recently, I upgraded to the newest version, Gutsy Gibbon. Ever since, whenever I try to boot into linux, my screen just goes black. It loads with the bar, like it should, but then intead of the login screen popping up, it just goes blank. I can boot it up into recovery mode or w/e my other option is, but I'm not sure what I need to type at the command line to get it working.

If that makes any sense, anyone got any ideas? I don't really want to to a fresh uninstall/reinstall

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What kind of video card does your laptop have? Try going into recovery mode and typing and select the vesa driver. Then

I actually tried booting up, and it worked for some unknown reason. Everything seems to be working normally again. Thanks for the help though

Now, if only I could get my f..king wireless figured out. I've got a Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI card. I've tried typing in my SSID and password to no avail. I haven't put a ton of effort into finding a fix on ubuntu's forums, though

EDIT: Jk. I got my wireless working

EDIT2: I've been messing around, customizing crap all day, and am pretty pleased with my desktop and whatnot.

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I have an old dell that I want to set up for email, instant messaging, and web browsing. I need an a Linux distribution that's light weight and will run better then xp on a system with 512MB of RAM and a Pentium 4.

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Why Are There So Many Versions Of Linux!!!!????