Posts Tagged ‘operating system’

Hello, I am a new web designer and i need some software to support some open source cms and an open sorce program called buddypress (google it if you dont know what buddy press is). I would prefer the software to be free, but any would do as long as it works. I have tried Dreamweaver 8 but no luck with it, would not work for me. My operating system is xp. The open source cms is called drupal.

Alright, so I’ve gotten my hands on an older desktop and the previous user reformatted the hard drive. Therefore, there is no operating system at all! I want to install Linux onto this system but how do I do that? I heard something about installing Linux onto a thumb drive and having the BIOS boot with the thumb drive and it will install Linux? Could someone please help!

I have my hard drive partitioned into two partitions. One has XP installed and the other has GNU Linux (Debian) installed. I used to be able to choose which operating system to load when i turned the computer on using GRUB boot manager which came packaged with Debian. The problem is that I had to reformat the XP partition and so now I can no longer choose a partition to load but it automatically goes into windows. How can I get back onto Linux when i want to.
Thanks.

I want to buy the new version of Mac OS X when it releases, but wanted to know a few things:
1. Does installing a new OS erase my Hard Drive?
2. When I install the new OS, will it erase the old OS from my system?
3. Is an Operating System stored on the Hard Drive?

PLEASE HELP.

I am working on a custom operating system and so far the operating system is going along smoothly. I have been trying for a little while now to try and get details on creating a boot loader for my OS and have been unsuccessful. I simply need details on creating a boot loader for a custom OS.

I have a Mac OS X operating system. Every time I view a Microsoft document, (word, excel, ppt) it places a copy of the document on my desktop. Is there a preference that I can turn this off? It really crowds up my desktop when I am viewing several documents off the internet or through my email.

I’m using XP along with Microsoft Virtual PC to run a Windows 98 Operating system for internet usage. My goal is to keep the host operating system offline completely and to use the virtual machine exclusively for web access. The only thing I know to do is disable my network connection on the host OS (XP) which also disables 98′s network capabilities. Any help would be appreciated.

I want to test as many free open source ( Linux based or not ) operating system as I can, but I don’t have a high speed broad band Internet. so I want to order some on CD like Ubuntu. is there any other OS that I can order on CD as Free?
thanks.