Norton antivirus 2016 free download5/9/2023 ![]() I replaced the drive and the machine returned to normal.ĭoes any of this makes Linux suitable for -your- needs? No.īut at least I didn’t blame you for having a bad experience with Linux. For the life of me I couldn’t find out what’s wrong with the machine.Ī week ago I gave up, I boot the machine using DSL (Damn Small Linux CD) LiveCD and started following the kernel log while I worked.Īfter a couple of hours the Kernel log start spewing IDE errors: Seems that the IDE drive was slowly dieing, taking Windows XP with it. I checked the drivers, the eventlog, ran Sandra, memtest86 and even 3D mark. Took me 5 minutes to find the drivers.īeing a cross platform developer, I have a Windows XP based workstation which I use on a daily basis.Ī couple of weeks ago the machine started BSOD’ing once or twice every day. I fired-up usbview, wrote down the chipset and manufacturer ID(s), and used this information to track down XP drivers for the webcam. I was about to send him to the nearest computer store when I decide to give Linux a chance, and look and behold, not only did Fedora Core 5 detect the webcam chipset (or actually udev did), it also installed the right drivers for it – in short, it worked out of the box. (He lost/throw away the driver CD + box XP’s search didn’t come up with anything and the webcam’s name didn’t come in Google) The installation itself was rather event-less, but no matter what I tried, I couldn’t find drivers for his no-name webcam. Here’s a couple of stories to prove my point.Ī couple of months ago a friend of mine brought his dead PC, asking me to fix (read: reinstall XP) on it. Ignoring for a second the “free” (Free as beer, free as speech) and security factors, Windows severely lacks diagnostic tools. I doubt that it’ll be able to -boot- the XP installer on this machine. We both know that out of the box, using no 3rd-party drivers, XP is POS.
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