{"id":68,"date":"2006-11-28T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T21:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2006-11-28T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T21:24:27","slug":"dual-booting-on-the-prairie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Dual Booting on the Prairie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a while I&#8217;ve been interested in Linux as an alternative to Windows.  But, like many people, I&#8217;m not quite ready to make a blind leap to another OS just yet.  For one thing, the Linux world is considerably different than Windows and the the learning curve is steep in some areas.  I needed to start out with some training wheels.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday Jan and I were out doing errands and I wanted to go to a local used computer and e-waste recycling place called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mcbia.com\/store.htm\"> Midwest Computer Brokers<\/a> (MCBIA).  I found they had some great deals on relatively new PC&#8217;s. I ended up buying this little gem for a song.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PC\" id=\"image69\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/shoppc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got home and checked it out to make sure it was working okay.  Then I  booted with an Ubuntu live CD to make sure the hardware was compatible (which it was).<\/p>\n<p>Today, I installed software. First I put Windows on it, then I installed Ubuntu on the hard drive.  In less than<strong> 3 hours<\/strong> I had a working dual boot system.  In fact Ubuntu installed easier than Windows.  With Windows I had to go searching for additional drivers while Linux had everything needed already in the installer.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m off on the big adventure.  I&#8217;ll recommend Ubuntu to anyone who has an old PC and wants to play with Linux.  Download Ubuntu or order one of their free CD&#8217;s (free shipping too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a while I&#8217;ve been interested in Linux as an alternative to Windows. But, like many people, I&#8217;m not quite ready to make a blind leap to another OS just yet. For one thing, the Linux world is considerably different than Windows and the the learning curve is steep in some areas. I needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}