[wellylug] Machines with OS pre-installed

[John Durham]

Jethro Carr wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 08:52 +1200, John Durham wrote:
>> I just went through a difficult situation with a customer who has  an 
>> almost new Lenovo PC with Vista.
>>
>> After a few weeks he noticed his Skype connection no longer worked. The 
>> cause was internal breakdown of Vista files. Regrettably, his system 
>> came without a system CD. He is facing the cost of buying one because of 
>> the provider's unethical behavior.
> 
> Lenovo systems have a recovery partition on the system hard drive. 
> 
> For their laptops, you push the Thinkcenter key at boot up, and it will
> take you into their recovery program that allows you to restore the
> system.
> 
> Not sure about desktops - watch the BIOS messages at boot, there will be
> some key combination to make it start.
> 
> 
>> Then this morning I saw an article about Ubuntu here:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7358483.stm
>>
>> My question is: How practical would it be to use Ubuntu in his case to 
>> replace the system and restore Skype etc?
> 
> That depends entirely on what programs they want to run. You can get
> skype for Linux, but do they require any other windows programs?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Will look for it, thanks. Where would he be now if the system had Ubuntu 
from the start?

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