Well downloading and installing the latest version of Ubuntu worked, but I am having other issues...
The first one is that it doesn't recognize my wireless card. No idea how to fix this. Going to Intel's site (with Windows booted) they only have drivers for XP/Vista... and I honestly do not know how drivers work in Linux.
Download Software, Drivers and Utilities Filters
That is the website I went to looking for my wireless card drivers
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated
The second is I cant figure out how to install programs (surprise). I tried installing WINE and Compiz (the two programs I wanted to play with and the main reason I wanted to try Linux in the first place)The readme files said to execute the 'configure' command through the terminal, which I did manage to get to work on both of them, except at the end it just says 'failed to compile executable' and nothing else happened. I cant seem to see any steps I am doing wrong... but of course I am probably missing something
If anyone has any suggestions they would be welcomed (I'll be googling until then)
10-09-2008
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