How to install Qimo:
if you have installed or MS-Windows from CD or DVD, you can
probably do this! Click HERE to
print 6-page install Manual (pdf).
Can I install Qimo on my own
computer? We can't promise anything, but:
- Have you ever installed an
operating system (such as Microsoft Windows or Linux or MAC
on a computer?
- Do you have or know how to
MAKE
or buy a
Qimo Install Disk?
- Have you backed up all the
files on the computer and you do NOT plan to use this
computer it for
anything BUT Qimo?
- Have you printed the
instructions from this Link?
- If you want to use the
computer on the internet, do you have a place to connect it
to an "Always On" internet WHILE you install and update Qimo
and the underlying Linux system?
- Are you curious, not easily
frustrated or prone to "give up and willing to do Internet
searches for help and support?
If you can answer YES to all of
the above, they give it a SHOT:
- Check or have someone check
the
specs of the computer.
- Remember - Installing
Qimo as shown in 3 below removes ALL data and the operating
system from the computer. If you need your data, back
it up first!
-
Visual step-by-step instructions for installing Qimo - print and follow!
- Qimo
technical support.
Learn more about
Xubuntu - the
Linux
Operating System that makes
Qimo possible.
Xubuntu
8.10, installed automatically with Qimo, is a "light" version of Ubuntu Linux.
Videos:
Nelson Mandella explains the meanings of "Ubuntu":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLKaOKRhBE
How to
download software packages in Ubuntu 9.10 (somewhat
crude, but very useful):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr9pb14sD2E
Very
geeky but useful comparison of Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10 and Mac
OS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Rdx11HWBc
Ubuntu and Qimo
Links:
Use
your old computer to "Recompute"
http://www.ubuntu.com/ ...
or to help Kids:
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
Can't let go? ...
Here is a list of FREE programs, tested to run in Windows 7:
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/92-free-great-programs-windows-7-a.html