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I was setting up reserved IP addresses for particular machine names, when I noticed that the Linux boxes (I have 3) had no names, just a mac address.<BR><BR>My question is, how would set up a computer ...

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Installing Ubuntu on a Windows computer is no different from dual-booting any operating system. In fact, it's easier than most, because Ubuntu is designed to be one of the most straight forward of ...