De Arimasu!
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Mar 2006
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Apr 5, 2006, 06:45 AM
Local time: Apr 5, 2006, 12:45 PM
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Modern Linux distros don't use LILO(LInux LOader) anymore, they use GRUB, (GRand Unified Bootloader) which allows for a fancy graphical screen at startup with all your choices on it. Linux isn't short of eye-candy these days, so the bootloader had to move with the times.
Also, Ubuntu is a good way to go, but it's not necessarily the most newb-friendly way to go. I should also point out that contrary to the bullshit that you've been exposed to, you don't need to know anything about programming to use Linux, or to dual-boot. You might need to know something about scripting, but you can learn as you go. Scripting is similar to programming, but like 100x more simple.
NTFS support has been brought into the recent line of Linux Kernels, and it will soon be perfected, if it is not already. The Kernel is the name that's given to the most important part of Linux, the central system functions. Without the Kernel, it wouldn't be Linux; it wouldn't work. Most of the other parts of the OS aren't specific to Linux, they work on other OS too.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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