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would you care to elaborate, which SD cards are suitable for this ?

Hi, I want to do a full Linux install on an SD card for a laptop with no hard drive. I dont want to use the whole SD card for the linux install though I would like to use some of it for a separate partition that could be read by windows also. I have done this previously with a USB key. The SD...

Finally got a chance to run smartctl. It seems to run ~instantaneously so I guess it is just reporting data that has already been collected rather than running a test? It looks like the most relevant line is: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Does this mean the disk is ok...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try some of these tomorrow. But some immediate reactions: 1. While the browser is freezing the machine, can you switch to a different terminal (ctrl-alt-F1 through F7), login, and kill the browser process from that terminal - I can't imagine this will work as it...

Hi, I have been running Ubuntu on an old Dell Latitude E6410 for a number of years and since the start it has been exhibiting crashes. The symptoms are always the same: - It invariably happens when I am browsing online in Firefox - The LED light will start to flicker indicating disk access...

For reference it's an Acer Aspire S5 Series S5-391-53314G12akk with 4Gb of RAM installed

Hi, I have an old Acer laptop with no hard disk so I want to run Linux from a full install on a USB key. I have a 16Gb USB 3.0 key which I did a full install of Ubuntu 14.05 LTS a few years ago and using this the machine boots up and looks to be basically working. Some features don't work...

There's a max number of tabs that Linux supports now ? This is news to me. Don't suppose there's an official reference listing the max number of tabs allowed before the system becomes unusable ? Anyway, leaving aside such absurd notions my question was how to debug issues like this not...

Hi, Generally all I use my laptop for is web browsing and I repeatedly see the same crashing behaviour. It generally happens when I have many tabs open (like 30+) and suddenly the disk access (as indicated by an LED) will start going crazy and after a few seconds I will loose all control of the...