was gparted well supporting your drive when you
changed the partitions,its standard that ntfs is read
only for ubuntu you have to set the linux partition up
as etc3
another point is a bit that I even don't know which
c++ compiler truly supports dualcore(multicore) and
multi threating.....you imagine the first 386 was in
1985...and the first software to support the 386
enhanced mode was in 1990....(win3.1)its not that the
newest machines are the best choice....

or you can give solaris10 a try, but that is a
download of 7 cd's...