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madokie

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Reply to Recursion (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 11:10 PM

Feb 2014

Just got back from purchasing it.
I'll wait until morning to switch it out with my old dell dimension 4700 that I bought new in 2001.

Crazy as I am I like Ubuntu 10.04 best so I'll probably put it on first. I just downloaded the amd 64 version of it. My old dimension didn't like 12.04 using Mate and I'm not sure it is was the age of the computer or bugs in the OS. At least I now know how to set up 10.04 so it will upgrade firefox and thunderbird to the newest versions as they come out as well as install the new kernels as they're available.

I'm going to try to make a copy of the windows 8 that is on it with out having to register it in case I want to give it to someone else so I'll not even boot to it. Rather just boot to the thumb drive and install Ubuntu.

Been watching a while for what to me seemed like a good deal and when I seen this one this morning I felt my wait was over.

One more question, I recently purchased a SSD drive that I would like to use as my operating system drive. Do you know if I'll be able to do that with this machine

Thanks again

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Would I be able to put linux on this machine [View all] madokie Feb 2014 OP

Sure, just make sure to get the amd64 rather than x86 version of whatever distro you use Recursion Feb 2014 #1

Thanks. madokie Feb 2014 #2

Shhh Recursion Feb 2014 #3

Looks like I could just lay the SSD drive on the bottom of the case if I wanted to madokie Feb 2014 #4

You may defacto7 Feb 2014 #5

I guess I am tired. Sorry to double post. defacto7 Feb 2014 #6

You may have to screw with the BIOS settings. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #7

Thank you very much. madokie Mar 2014 #8

Is there a mother board that doesn't have this UEFI bios madokie Mar 2014 #9

All the new boards have it. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #10

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