Linux Application Server

I downloaded VMware as realistic organisation and UNIX Debian realistic contrivance in my vista computer. I went finished a daylong plan and after that It asked me for my username and i modify in the username that I created from the plan but when I proven to identify in the countersign it won’t permit me and i got cragfast in the bidding prompt. I don’t undergo if there’s something criminal with my configuration. Please help.

I’m essentially hunting for a Windows XP/Vista alternative….I don’t tending most planning or streaming a server….I poverty base applications same Mozilla Firefox 2.0, a accumulation program, ikon editor, etc….

I hit a Toshiba laptop equipment x-205 help that runs Vista. It has a 4 GB RAM with a 2GHz processor and 2 120 GB harddrives. Is it meliorate to ready the choice Vista or would UNIX be a meliorate OS for me? I hit never utilised UNIX but I would same to see how to ingest it without mixture up my laptop.

ok, I separate linux on the whole round but for my employ I rattling requirement Vista backwards on my laptop but when I bought it… there was no CD so I don’t undergo how to place it back.