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DCFC79

fwor wrote: »

You can, but you don't need to if you trust the source that you are downloading from.

You can check the integrity of what you've downloaded by burning it to CD, running it as a LiveCD and choosing the "Check CD for errors" (or words to that effect) option.

Ok thanks, ill try the live cd option,

DCFC79

Well ive given ubuntu and linux mint a good use and they're good, ive also kbuntu and xubuntu to try out extensively,

robredz

Power to the Penguin. I am dual booting Ubuntu with Xp at the minute, only use XP for some games & video editing now.

A mate had his old Dell Lappy trashed by a Sky engineer setting up sky broadband, ( he got rid of it & went back to BT) who said he had a virus, he vaped the hard drive including rescue partition, put a crack XP pro on it 30 days later it's a doorstop. Installed Xubuntu & he loves it.

scumboss

Gentoo and Backtrack user here.

raptorman

I have a box running EARmusic(ubuntu based media centre) which
is running really slow and crashing quite regularly.

Anybody got any ideas what might be causing this?

Any ideas/solutions?

fwor

One of my Ubuntu installs recently started to be virtually unusable after running for a few hours, and that turned out to be a memory problem within Firefox, which I solved by using Swiftfox instead. You'll know if that's your problem, because it consumes all available memory and then goes into a frenzy of swapping, which thrashes the pants off your hard disk...

Prior to Intrepid I've also had an intermittent issue with the USB ports on a different PC, which would cause it to hang at random. IIRC, one of the symptoms is lots of "USB disconnect" errors if you look in dmesg. I couldn't find a way to fix it without upgrading to Intrepid (which at that time was in Beta release), but haven't had it happen since.

Palm_Centro

Are you not a bit worried that if you switch to doing IT Support in Linux.

ZootHornRollo

raptorman wrote: »

I have a box running EARmusic(ubuntu based media centre) which
is running really slow and crashing quite regularly.

Anybody got any ideas what might be causing this?

Any ideas/solutions?

i could not get ear to run my soundcard when i tried it (Hardy wouldn't either)

was a shame because it would be just the trick for my audio box which is running gutsy.

might give it another shot tho!

no idea how to solve your problem tho! have you tried their support forum? or possibly ubunutforums as it is ubuntu based.