Yeah, i like avg as well. Also, here are some good anti-crapware programs that i recommend installing.
Spybot SD
Adware SE
Spyware Blaster
All free of course.
Linux is the kernel yes, but distro's dont modify that, they modify gnu :)
O and if you are new to linux, you can always dualboot so you have both windows and linux on your computer.
Uh, im guessing you are meaning to say "ubuntu ultimate is there for a reason guys"?
My aim is not to create a bloated distro like ubuntu ulitamate. IMO ubuntu ultimate is a joke. All it has is more preinstalled apps and a different theme and they call it another distro.
http://kde-look.org/content/download.php?content=65537&id=1 is my favorite.
If you like that, check out this for more! Just remember, it's from the linux community :)
IMO vista is better then xp. Not because it is physically better, but has much more potential. While xp is lean (in comparision) it is also obsolete. Programs will be released with vista support and will be lacking in xp.
Future proof, buy vista.
I was given a homework assignment for this semester. The criteria is that it has to benefit the computer-using society. I am pretty skilled in programming and so i decided to modify ubuntu. The problem is, what will make ubuntu better? In a more broad term, what do you think will make the whole...
You heard wrong. CPU's don't "partition" ram. The ram consists of nods (kindof like a graph) and the instruction set tells it where the data is stored on the ram so they don't need to partition it up. Now cache is a totally different story, but i will trust your abilities to google ;)
As for...
LMAO, dont get too confident. I got a some sort of crap-ware and it wrote itself to another partition and decided to embed itself into the steam launcher. Long story short, i had to re-download 10gb of games :P
Yeah thats odd. That happened to me when i ran another xserver and it ran in the root window (aka the background). Does compiz come preinstalled on madriva? If not the only thing i can think of is that when you created a startup file for compiz you might have accidently told it to launch gnome...
Not true at all. I built a server for my work consisting of four (4) xeon quad-core cpus and it was originally running windows xp business but then later was switched out with linux. All 16 cores where recognized and utilized.