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How similar is Red Hat and Fedora? I know Fedora is Red Hat's community version, but how similar are they? We have started getting Red Hat Servers in at work. And since I have the most Linux experi...

I am trying to go all Linux. I installed Ubuntu on my Laptop and did not leave a partition for Windows like I did when I installed Ubuntu on my IBM machine. I am still leaving IBM as my only Window...

Just wanted to show some appreciation for what I recently heard called the "hybrid" live and installable CD image.
Some distros seem to offer a live image and a separate installable image and this ...

I have a 400GB external HDD I've been using in Ubuntu to store my music for some time now. I just rebooted into Windows because I'm getting a new iPod and wanted to update the firmware/transfer the...

I have this HP laptop here and need to reinstall the OS on it. I have done this millions of times, but this machine seems to be cursed. The HP recovery start and it BSODs, my Windows XP CD also BSO...

Could they be running Microsoft OS?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008...dented-attack/

Hi I have an old computer in the basement running windows 2000
and I want to install dsl or puppy linux
but I having troble installing both
I'm not sure which one would go good
old pc info:
128mb r...

This might sound a bit stupid... but I would really enjoy to try an early linux distro from sometime in the 90's if anyone could point me to one that would be great.
My reason for doing this is se...

i enabled apt, then tried to update it but i got errors:
EDIT: will post the above error again tomorrow, i was dsl instead of root :)
but these questions, i can't find current answers for :(
how do...

I just got two 233 MHz with 32 MB and 64 MB of RAM. One has a 1214 MB hard drive and the other one's hard drive is dead. For the working one, what distro should I put on it (Windows 98 isn't an opt...