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[Ramakrishnan]

When I bought the Acer 4730z, the linux had no GUI. I mean the laptop had DOS like appearance. Do they provide UNix also with linux? I am not familiar with linux terminal anyway. I have seen UBunutu, Fedora, etc. butwith windows like appearance. Even the shopkeeper also remarked about it and asked me whether I wanted XP for an additional sum. I declined and installed xp myself. But that involved some steps which is outside the scope of this thread.

[sam9s]

Originally Posted by Ramakrishnan

When I bought the Acer 4730z, the linux had no GUI. I mean the laptop had DOS like appearance. Do they provide UNix also with linux? I am not familiar with linux terminal anyway. I have seen UBunutu, Fedora, etc. butwith windows like appearance. Even the shopkeeper also remarked about it and asked me whether I wanted XP for an additional sum. I declined and installed xp myself. But that involved some steps which is outside the scope of this thread.

Buddy you dont know what you are saying.......anyway not to blame you........ not everybody knows everything.......but learn to google always if you feel you are in doubt....

Linux was always GUI, that was the whole point of Linux to give Unix a GUI appearence.... keeping the architecture quite same.....so "DO they provide Unix also with Linux" is a vague statement...... Unix is a part of Linux. Linux uses UNIX architecture as its basis and provides more facilities and applications.

[Ramakrishnan]

@sams9

offtopic. which linux version(i mean ubunutu, xubuntu, fedora and like) will run perfectly on 4730z apart from the one which came with 4730z?

[IronManForever]

^ All major Linux operating systems run on your laptop. Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora.. Linux is as ubiquitous as Windows, just that being 'Free and Open-Source'*, it does not get as much propaganda as Microsoft gets for its OS.

If you do not intend to game, and are not strictly dependant on Microsoft apps, you may just literally throw away your version of Windows and adopt linux. And experience a free virus free world.

Drop in your queries in a thread, there are a handful of linux experts waiting to sort your problems out.

* By free, it is meant that apart being monetarily free, it also supllements freedom. Generally you are free to share, modify, redistribute your version of Linux OS.

[sam9s]

Originally Posted by Ramakrishnan

@sams9

offtopic. which linux version(i mean ubunutu, xubuntu, fedora and like) will run perfectly on 4730z apart from the one which came with 4730z?

All should run on this system as ironman pointed, without any problem...

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by Ramakrishnan

@sams9

offtopic. which linux version(i mean ubunutu, xubuntu, fedora and like) will run perfectly on 4730z apart from the one which came with 4730z?

Fedora. Linpus is based on Fedora, but fedora is much much better than Linpus.

And yeah, UNIX is NOT a part of linux. Linux just has a few commands and file system structure similar to UNIX.

If you want UNIX install Sun Microsystems' OS called Solaris 10.