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| Thread ID: 67911 | 2006-04-10 04:24:00 | Linux, Is It All It's Cracked Up To Be? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | Press F1 |
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| 445362 | 2006-04-10 05:39:00 | Why the hell do you want to make up your mind on the basis of other people's experiences? Alrighty, Can someone please inform Bruce and the crew that all reviews, previews, tests and opinion pieces are no longer required for the mag, Seems what anyone thinks of anything, any user experience, and any info not in the form of a spec sheet is now deemed of no use. The robots have taken over. One day we shall return and slay the beasts, Then we can bring some colour back into the world... ............BAAA................ |
Metla (12) | ||
| 445363 | 2006-04-10 05:58:00 | Yes most distros allow that by default, although some prevent you from writing to an ntfs drive (safety feature) I can't see how with Ubuntu Live . . . I want one that allows writing as well . You will be able to dual screen if you download the linux drivers off Nvidia (or ATI if that is who your card is from) . I don't think you can dual screen with the default drivers LOL, true I never thought of that :blush: From what I have seen so far it is good, different for a change :) LOL :lol: nicely put Metla :D |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 445364 | 2006-04-10 06:06:00 | mount -o remount,rw /mnt/hda1 as root (the mount point might not be called "/mnt/hda1" ... ). In an installed OS you can change the partition's line in /etc/fstab to mount it rw. But it's safest not to. Until MS release the specifications of the NTFS filesystems, the Linux coders can't guarantee the safety of writing to NTFS. The safe way is to have a FAT32 partition which both can access. FAT's well enough understood. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 445365 | 2006-04-10 06:17:00 | How do you mean not safe? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 445366 | 2006-04-10 06:26:00 | How do you mean not safe? NTFS is closed format and MS won't tell people how its done. The reading part is easy, writing however can be a bit more hit and miss. So if it's mission critical stuff then you don't want to be messing with it. I'm using fedora 5. Once you have it set up for mp3's and the update repo's all going its sweet as. |
Sam I Am (1679) | ||
| 445367 | 2006-04-10 06:28:00 | The code to write files to a filesystem is not simple. And it has to be exactly right. Every time. If the filesystem is complex, like NTFS, and you haven't got the specifications, it's very difficult. The programmers have done a good job of their reverse engineering, but they don't claim perfection. Reading can't do any damage. Writing can. FAT is easy. MS based that on the CPM file structure so the details were public. I've written code to write FAT floppies for PCs from a PDP11. But I wouldn't even try NTFS. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 445368 | 2006-04-10 07:35:00 | As Graham has said, don't count on any Linux OS to give you 100% writibilty to NTFS partitions. For file swapping between partitions, its best to use Fat32. Between computers.. use Samba (or NFS if both Linux) I have been using Linux as my only OS for months now (close to a year), thoroughly enjoy it, has its moments but is a great learning curve (especially the CLI [command line interface]). However more and more Linux distros are doing away with that and becoming more gui (a la windows). I have found it to be highly stable. Incidentally I use Gentoo (not the ideal beginners distro but a great one none -the-less) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 445369 | 2006-04-10 09:23:00 | Well, I've just bitten the bullet and reformatted an old computer to be dual boot - Xandros and Win XP. Xandros looks and feels just like Windows. No problems so far, though I haven't managed to access my Windows LAN from Linux yet. I understand it's possible, but getting a network to go is always a *****...... :confused: I'd recommend Xandros for getting into Linux without making too big a leap and being able to completely avoid command line stuff. For example, Control Panel becomes Control Centre, and driving it is just like Win XP. I've tried writing text files to a USB pen drive in Linux and they read back into another Win XP machine OK, so I guess both systems are clever enough to figure the file system out. |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 445370 | 2006-04-10 09:59:00 | When was the last time anyone looked at NTFS . The days of unsafe writing are over, they've worked out the problem they had which was something that Windows did which was a way of databasing/indexing where all the files, folders, etc existed . So if you wrote to NTFS before the new improvements, chances would be you broke Windows because Windows had no clue about it but things have changed and NTFS support is better than ever, I think people should look back into it, as they've made some huge leaps from where they were before . There's still minor things that they haven't worked out yet, but for what it's worth, it seems safer than before, and I've been using NTFS write even when it wasn't safe, and still had no problems . Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 445371 | 2006-04-10 23:37:00 | My two cents (not worth much these days): I'm running four linux PCs and one XP box, as I have to support client's XP installations. I love Linux, it is so stable, so configurable, so much fun, so much more interesting. XP is boring,and crashes way more often. I run Kubuntu on the same box as the XP, and it is very stable. My favourite distro: depends what day of the week. Anything Debian based is very easy to administer, and update. I am currently working with Kanotix64 on a new AMD64 box, with Nvidia nForce chipsets,, which is a lot of fun, tweaking and upgrading, learning how to install IA32 chroots, fixing broken UDEV, etc. The thing is for someone like me, who likes to push their OS to the limit, I can break Linux, and fix it again. XP, once broken, requires a lenghty wipe and reinstall in order avoid inherited problems. XP is for games, shockwave on the net, and cheaper hardware( with crappy drivers ). Linux is for serious computer users, who want to know what the computer is doing, and how, and can tell it to do something else. I have found Xandros can be broken too easily, and isn't customisable to the level others are (Mepis, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Knoppix, Kanotix). |
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