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Thread ID: 114793	2010-12-17 07:26:00	Moving to Linux	ubergeek85 (131)	PC World Chat

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1162826	2010-12-17 09:08:00	Why not stick with Windows? It does what you want it to do. Why not stick with training wheels on a bike? You'll still get from A to B. I'm getting a little sick of the inflexibility of windows. Also, I quite like the idea of 'everything-as-a-file'. Want to send random data out the serial port? Simply link /dev/urandom to /dev/tty0. I'm getting sick of MS's approach of 'make an API for it'. Best example I can think of is with wireless adaptor drivers. Even if the driver supports packet-injection, due to MS's API, you just can't use it. It limits you to what MS sees fit. Edit; ISO is up to 50% now. At only 700Mb, I'm starting to think I should've gone with the BitTorrent option.	ubergeek85 (131)
1162827	2010-12-17 09:16:00	Why not stick with Windows? It does what you want it to do. Linux has the added advantage that you don't have to pay for a licence to use it and can download it freely. ;) You can even compile your own kernels if you want to. Does that make it sound more attractive?	Snorkbox (15764)
1162828	2010-12-17 10:31:00	Ubuntu does a lot for you automatically, Debian does not. That can be a good thing either way, depends what you want. Debian also has a different philosophy wrt. inclusion of proprietary code. Depending on the attitudes of your hardware manufacturers, this can make it harder than it needs to to set some things up. Simply enabling access to the repository for 'non-free' software , and installing the proprietary firmware packages, is usually all that's required. Debian is a community driven non-commercial distro, while Ubuntu is a bit more company flavoured. Try them all and see what you like :) About 6 GB will be enough HDD for a / partition (maybe 10 if you want KDE or a big load of everything) You can put your /home on the same partition as Ubuntu /home (but use a different user). When you first install whatever, put /home on a separate partition, you will be glad you did. If performance rather than bling is your go, install LXDE or Xfce as a DE instead of Gnome or KDE. These can also be 'loved up' as much as you want. I hear Mepis is a good (Debian based again) distro also. I seem to recall a poster here who packages for them.	fred_fish (15241)
1162829	2010-12-17 10:58:00	Woohoo! Rollin' on Ubuntu! However I may have to to a reinstall after reading the above post. Currently my setup has a 4096Mb swap partition, and a 70Gb partition. I wasn't quite sure where to set the mount-point, so I set it as root. Will redo it tomorrow, so that I have a 4Gb swap, 12Gb / and the rest to /home. Does this sound OK? Time for me to go to bed, was supposed to be asleep by 12 at the latest, but, ooh shinies! Edit: Looks like I'll have to do a bit of reconfig in... uhhh... something. On bootup the splash screen looks like it's trying to drive the LCD at a resolution it doesn't really like, so sort of implodes in on itself. It passes, but it needs fixing.	ubergeek85 (131)
1162830	2010-12-17 11:06:00	4gb swap??? :waughh: The most I have ever had was 1GB Anyway, why not forget about having a seperate swap partition, and opt instead to have a swap file? www.linux.com << about halfway down explains how to create a swap file	Myth (110)
1162831	2010-12-17 11:37:00	4GB Swap so you can store all RAM onto the HDD and hibernate ;) Yes, 12GB is probably more than sufficient (But a good amount), any additional things such as large games can be installed to your /home folder :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
1162832	2010-12-17 12:03:00	Also, /var and /usr are commonly mounted from separate partitions. If space on / is becoming an issue, these can easily be moved later, without having to reinstall. My hibernate images also seem to compress to about half the size of ram in use.	fred_fish (15241)
1162833	2010-12-17 18:27:00	Why not stick with Windows? It does what you want it to do the way MS wants you to do it. Fixed that for you. Very helpful answer you gave.:groan:	mikebartnz (21)
1162834	2010-12-17 18:31:00	4gb swap??? :waughh: The most I have ever had was 1GB Anyway, why not forget about having a seperate swap partition, and opt instead to have a swap file? www.linux.com << about halfway down explains how to create a swap file Please tell me what advantage there is in using a file rather than a partition because I can't think of one.	mikebartnz (21)
1162835	2010-12-17 19:05:00	1, you dont have to [re]partition the harddrive to change/add a swap file 2, if you find the swap file is too large/small, you can easily change the size (unmount it, delete old, make new, remount). If you find your swap partition is too large/small, you have to re-size the partition (reboot, boot up another app, resize, ...)	Myth (110)
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