Topic: Linux frequently asked questions for newbies

[sam]

http://www.tuxradar.com/newtolinux

[Simon]

My Windows 7 arrived today. 

[sam]

oh no.

[Sandra]

Got mine a few months back 

[GillE]

I've bookmarked the link .

It has a very friendly section on MythTV and I'm sorely tempted to dabble with it on an old computer (1.8Gb Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM).  Does Ubuntu come with MythTV?  Can you run it from a bootable DVD or CD?

[sam]

Ubuntu can be booted from a CD... however, I do think that version comes with mythtv... though if you have space on your hard disk ten Ubuntu is easy to install. It should run fine on that spec too. Let me know if you go for it I can help.

[GillE]

I'm going to go for it as soon as I can pluck up the courage.

When I install Ubuntu, will it overwrite the Windows OS?  I would rather like to preserve the Windows OS because it's XP and I fear that if I come to re-install it I might encounter problems with it having been declared obsolete by Micro$oft. 

[sam]

the more recent versions, actually probably LTS 6 (about to have 9), have a partition manager start when you run the install program - it will allow you to partition up the disk and yep keep the windows partition - I've had a few issues before with the boot loader not choosing to include windows, but that doesn't happen often - the people who created Ubuntu understand most people dual boot - even I do, though I hardly ever boot windows (well I guess I do for games occasionally, but not often)