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josh

well I'm a newbie to Linux as most of us out here India and I wanna install Linux and get a feel of Linux Ubantu -but as most of us I'm a little hesitant to install onto my Hard drive -yeah I no that there are numerous ways to install Linux without installing but here I wanna install it as clean install and then enjoy the open source arena.But I've a few concerns about it like will I be able to connect the net using Ubantu coz there are very few motherboard manufacturing companies which gives U the option to install drivers for Linux OS and without drivers how can we be comfortable with Linux because we've to install numerous drivers for operating our system and without installing it I doubt whether we get the same fragility as we find in Windows? Please specify me in detail because I've lot of queries to get solve so be prepared to face lots of bouncer from a debutant Bowler?

matrix

If you choose a distro like Mandriva/PCLinuxOS, you need not worry about drivers as these distro come will all the drivers for almost all hardware. I have tried many distros like CentOS, SuSe, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, et el. But for the past 2 years sticking with Mandriva as it has all the necessary drivers. Also a very user friendly control panel (gui) from there you can do all the configurations. For e.g. if you choose to setup network you will have the following options:

Wired (Ethernet)
Sateliite (DVB)
Cable modem
DSL
ISDN
Wireless (Wi-Fi)
GPRS/Edge/3G
Bluetooth Dial Up Networking
Analog Telephone Modes (POTS)

You can easily set up your internet from here. Also you will get all the free software for your daily use.

Setting up internet in Ubuntu is also simple but some other setting like personnel firewall, etc is not easy like Mandriva.

You may seen my other post in this section that now I am a full time linux user both in office and at Home.

josh

well thanks buddy U are spot on with your reply and I'm highly impressed with U bye the way I'm not gonna spare you easily so be prepared to encounter my bouncers and most of all -being a Linux savvy it is unfortunate to see that you've such Rep powers so here for U only Rep++++++ and above all can I add U to my list of friends?

linusr

unless you have an laptop, nothing to worry about

matrix

Well will be happy to help you or anybody as to my knowledge.
No problem

josh

well buddy I've installed ubuntu jaunty through wubi which is now comes with every Ubuntu live cd but the problem is that now I'm unable to uninstall it completely- by this I mean here that having uninstall the Ubuntu in wubi mode -I am still seeing while booting in Windows Boot Manager the option to choose between Windows and Ubuntu and it is so frustrating therefore I am in big mess and need help from you and evrybody in this forum and please.......... specify me in detail as I am a newbie to Linux

matrix

Which version of windows you are using? The windows boot manager displays the menu based on the boot.ini enteries (New version windows don't use boot.ini as far as my knowledge).

It seems ubuntu is completely uninstalled but the entry in boot.ini is still there. You can edit the file (hidden) in notepad and remove the entry.