Hey all does anyone know if I can run the latest incarnation of Ubuntu on my desktop machine? Do I need to get drivers for the motherboard or is that included in the distribution? The motherboard is a HP dx2355 MT. Cheers Glenn Morrissey.
On 7 July 2010 04:15, Glenn Morrissey <gmorrissey(a)kol.co.nz> wrote:
does anyone know if I can run the latest incarnation of Ubuntu on my desktop machine? Do I need to get drivers for the motherboard or is that included in the distribution? The motherboard is a HP dx2355 MT.
I doubt whether anyone could you give you a definite answer. Try the live CD (try without installing) and if you are successful, you are successful! Provided you don't do anything silly, you shouldn't damage any existing software installed. There's no need to go searching for drivers - Ubuntu usually "just works". Hardware compatibility is not 100% ... eg it's only the last few versions that have handled the wireless on my laptop "out of the box" ... before then, some tweaking and/or using a different distro was required. You will need at least 384MB RAM for the current version of Ubuntu - and more is better. If standard Ubuntu doesn't work, there's a myriad of others to try. Try some other distros too ... there's lot's of interesting stuff "out there" Michael
"If standard Ubuntu doesn't work, there's a myriad of others to try". always a good idea to look at other options. The specs look like it may be fine other than a dishonorably mention of the graphics card On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 16:41 +1200, Michael McDonald wrote: On 7 July 2010 04:15, Glenn Morrissey <gmorrissey(a)kol.co.nz> wrote:
does anyone know if I can run the latest incarnation of Ubuntu on my desktop machine? Do I need to get drivers for the motherboard or is that included in the distribution? The motherboard is a HP dx2355 MT.
I doubt whether anyone could you give you a definite answer. Try the live CD (try without installing) and if you are successful, you are successful! Provided you don't do anything silly, you shouldn't damage any existing software installed. There's no need to go searching for drivers - Ubuntu usually "just works". Hardware compatibility is not 100% ... eg it's only the last few versions that have handled the wireless on my laptop "out of the box" ... before then, some tweaking and/or using a different distro was required. You will need at least 384MB RAM for the current version of Ubuntu - and more is better.
If standard Ubuntu doesn't work, there's a myriad of others to try.
Try some other distros too ... there's lot's of interesting stuff "out there"
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