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New to the forum and did not know where else to ask this question.

I have a laptop set up with Win 7 as the original system. I have added Linux distros. on separate partitions and use all at various times.
I have Avast Antivirus running on the Win 7 system and it periodically tells me that I have ...

This is just to say thankyou for the replies/suggestions.

Not certain where I'll go from here, but this item is not a critically important one. With regard to "newer versions" of apps. and 64bit being dominant to exclusive, I am using xenialpup 7.5 32bit because in my first post it was suggested ...

I'm an "older" Newbie. My system is: Presario CQ61, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD. Recently did Frugal Install of Xenial 7.5.

Have a webcam that I would like to use and stumbled upon Webcamoid 8.0 in a Linux Questions Forum post by Mike Walsh. (I think it was Linux Q. forum). I downloaded the SFS from Mike's ...

Again thank you for the replies and suggestions, and again I will have to consider these.

Regarding the outdated versions of Linux, I got Xubuntu and Puppy Linux 5.0.1 plus some other light weight distros. Slax 6.1.2, Crunchbang 9.04, and DSL 4.4.10 all from OSDisc.com. This was way back in 2010 ...

First I'll say thank you for the replies and then to the items mentioned by "bigpup"

My system is: Presario CQ61 laptop, AMD cpu 2100MHz, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HD

I have done a Frugal install of Slacko Puppy 6.3.2 (32bit) to a extended partition which has a full install of Xubuntu 10.04 on it. File ...

I have tried searching on this forum site and can't find any results. I know the "skuttlebutt" used to be that Linux systems were "immune" to these problems, but that is not the case in this day. So, can someone give me some accurate info.?? Lots of info. from plain web search but I certainly don't ...