Ubuntu

[Hardov]

Hi

Anyone know how is ubuntu? is a secure OS, dont need AV? better than W7-64bit?

[bogdan]

You'll have to try it for yourself. Install it in a virtual machine/using Wubi/as a second OS and see how it works for you.

[Hardov]

Ok thanks!

[GakunGak]

Ubuntu, Mint and/or OpenSUSE are a good start. OpenSUSE gives you way more security controls

[TKFlight]

Ubuntu is great. Its linux so it has high security. You should install it in a VM first. Then dual boot if you like it. It comes pre-bundled with a lot of programs

1.) Firefox
2.) Open Office
3.) Software Center
4.) Torrent Client
5.) Games

You should use the 32-bit version of Ubuntu. Since Linux has the PAE kernel which allow a 32-bit OS to see more than 4gb of ram. And also, Flash Support stinks in Linux 64-bit. It works, but is not the greatest. Adobe released a beta for flash to run on Linux 64-bit. But I still recommend using 32-bit.

Just download the 32-bit ISO from Canonical. Burn it to a CD, then navigate to the CD. Open up Wubi.exe. And select install inside windows. Then after that is done, reboot, select Ubuntu for the Windows bootloader. Then the Ubuntu install will complete.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

[Hardov]

ohh thanks a lot

[GakunGak]

Whatever you do, don't:
1: root
2: change official repositories channels
3: install anything that you don't know
4: accept password prompt if you did not invoke it in a first place.
What you do:
1: Stay safe
2: Drink milk
3: ????
4: Profit!

[TKFlight]

Well, you can log in as root. But sometimes, I know this happened to me. I wanted to add songs to Frets On Fire, and I couldn't add songs unless I was running "Nautilus" while in root. But, most of the time, I just use sudo.

If you want to setup a root password, which I recommend. You are going to need root at some point.

1.) Open terminal and type "sudo passwd root"
2.) You should get something says "new unix password", type in a password(make sure its not your login password). For security reasons.
3.) After you typed in your password. Then type in "su root", then type in the password you just typed in.
4.) Then you should see your name being changed to root in terminal.
5.) Then type "exit" in terminal to exit root.

[Waffleboy]

2nd'd using sudo instead of root and using 32 bit. I tried 64 bit, and it's just not worth the hassle. You don't really need an AV for Linux itself, but if you're dual booting you might want to get one to make sure nothing you download has windows malware that could infect the windows partition. I think there are a couple free Linux AVs. I'm pretty sure AVG has one, and there's always clamAV...

[ThisNameWasntTaken]

I just installed Ubuntu onto my Virtualbox VM. Looks good so far. Installed the extras and everything. However, I can't seem to get the GUI to expand larger, or even full screen on my VM. Going to play around with it more later.