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Before I went Linux full time I used to have W2kPro on an old P3 laptop I got from eBay, it's my favourite version of Windows. It was replaced on that laptop by Xubuntu 7.04 and when support for that ended I put W2kPro back on again and its still on there. My wife still uses the laptop as a display ...

Support for W2kPro SP4 ended on 13 July 2010.

Some of the top distros like Ubuntu and LinuxMint have switched to alternate DEs like Unity and Cinnamon/MATE, as their default desktop environment. Does this move reflect less trust in Gnome 3? I think in the case of Unity it is more about Canonical attempting to increase brand identity and in the...

There's far worse places than Stranraer

So furryboots are ye frae?
Are ye a weegie?

December 2010, January 2011 and now June 2012... Some threads just refuse to die!

Fit like loon, foos yer doos?

It's why I suggested a LiveUSB.
Optical media is just so last millenium

Not just that, the way they conduct their business is shameful.
But it's an old topic and tbh one that I'm really tired of, goodness knows why I'm even posting this, I really should sto

Have you tried a LiveUSB rather than optical media?

/dev/urandom wrote:How dare they want to make money!

Nothing wrong with making money, it's the way they do it which is so utterly repugnant.

Maybe Mint has replaced the kernel for a non-PAE one in Mint 13, I don't know for sure because I have yet to use Mint 13.
Have you tried installing on the internal hard drive?

Mint 13 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 The 32-bit version of 12.04 has a PAE kernel by default. I don't see how you will be able to use a standard download of Mint 13 on a non-PAE computer? The only thing I can think of doing would be to use an Ubuntu net install CD which allows you to choose a non-PAE ke...

Sounds similar to this issue: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=102552

Have you tried this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... net_access

Rather than go back to Xp, why not just buy a cheap mini usb adaptor which is known to work?

e.g: http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/18658448/-/Product.html

Don't know about Mint Maya, but the instructions contained here have always worked for me with my son's Broadcom b43 wireless adaptor in previous versions.

Given that you should be backing up everything you need to keep to external media, I can't see that there's any point in having separate partitions. I just go with one partition for / and a swap. Someone will be along in a minute to tell you the opposite, fact is only you can decide what partitionin...

Saved Thunderbird stuff should usually be in /home/username/.thunderbird As for the not starting, I think there should be a way of editing the boot-up instructions to force use of the Vesa driver so that it will start, I've not had to do that yet with Grub2 so only know how to do it with the older v...

One way of doing it is to open Synaptic Package Manager, look in the History section (File > History) for when you installed Xfce4, it will list all the packages which were installed in that operation. Next, search Synaptic for all those packages and mark them all for complete removal. Bit of a chor...

You might also want to look at Remastersys.
http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/