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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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| 445372 | 2006-04-11 01:15:00 | . . . 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 . I didn't say disaster was inevitable . But it's easy to wreck a file system . Windows can do that all by itself . ;) It's the "minor things that they haven't worked out" which are likely to get you . There's a safe way to access NTFS : read only . I would do that on a business system . On a network, it doesn't arise: use Samba, and the MS OS handles the filesystem . On a dual booted system, it's easy to have a FAT32 partition which both systems can write to . But as long as distributions mount NTFS partitions readonly by default, that means that they aren't totoally confident of safe writing . That time will come when MS release the information, and there aren't any "minor things" unknown . Pigs overhead warning . Guess why Microsoft have removed their new "improved better does everything for you including make the tea" filesystem from Vista? It doesn't work reliably . It's too complicated to be safe . Even Microsoft couldn't afford to release it . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 445373 | 2006-04-11 01:49:00 | XP crashes way more often. XP is for games, shockwave on the net, and cheaper hardware( with crappy drivers ). Probably. I've only had XP since January 2005 so haven't had it crash yet as its too newly installed. Yep, Linux sucks for games for sure. What do you mean about cheap hardware though? Considering what my PC cost me there must be a hell of a variation in the definition of cheap hardware... AMD 3500+ 2Gb DDR400 Seagate 120Gb TT Tsunami case X1900XTX Liteon 16X DVDRW Logitech G15 KB Logitech MX518 |
pctek (84) | ||
| 445374 | 2006-04-11 02:05:00 | There are distributions who are mounting NTFS as read/write, I think Mandriva does now and I'm sure more do too. Fedora won't because they won't include NTFS because they protect their backsides with anything that could give them issues. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 445375 | 2006-04-11 02:06:00 | A fuse module: You can now mount your NTFS volume with FUSE. This means more features (YES, WRITE SUPPORT IS HERE) on the expense of speed and stability. ... www.linux-ntfs.org/ - 15k - Cached This is what the NTFS coders say. If they say that stability is not assured, I believe them. This not a criticism.;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 445376 | 2006-04-11 02:13:00 | I don't use FUSE apart from the module for ntfsmount from the ntfsprogs. FUSE was created for a different file system, and ever since have been developing a means to be able to FUSE with any filesystem as well as the ability to create your own file system. I have never used it at all though, but I may try it out and see what it is like. Cheers, KK |
Kame (312) | ||
| 445377 | 2006-04-11 02:34:00 | What is the ext2/3 driver for windows called? | Greven (91) | ||
| 445378 | 2006-04-11 07:18:00 | I wish.... That people would give some indication of how much GRUNT is available. This would help give comments based on more than just personal taste. I can rave about Mepis. It's a wonderful Linux brew. My distro of choice. However, put it on a slow machine and zhe gads does it suck...... For the slowest machine, i'd recommend puppy. For a slower machine, i'd recommend say SuSE 9.1, or 8.0 My son is running SusE9.1 on a 330MHz machine he was given, It's stable, and it runs without hesitation with allmost every task he gives it |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 445379 | 2006-04-11 08:58:00 | So.... I have decided to create a dual boot system, how do I do this? I have installed winows and want to instal Ubuntu for now, I have created a 5GB partition for Linux and formatted it to FAT32, now what do I do? |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 445380 | 2006-04-11 09:10:00 | So.... I have decided to create a dual boot system, how do I do this? I have installed winows and want to instal Ubuntu for now, I have created a 5GB partition for Linux and formatted it to FAT32, now what do I do?O dear.... you will have issues with a fat 32 and linux... Linux requires things fat32 doesn't support.. Fat 32 is only good for a shared partition , somewhere windows and linux can see mutually shared files in.... When you install linux (what distro did you settle on?) it will want to create new partitions for itself. one for /, possibly one for swap, and one for /home. It will probably want to use ext3 file system, which windows will ignore completely... Without knowing the specifics of which distro, i can only say that grub will see the windows installation, and will include that in the new boot menu, that is if you use a distro with grub... I was seriously nervious when i did my first dual boot a couple of months back, but it was actually easy, and safe :D I was using Mepis, created the new partitions using QTParted, and as said Grub sorted out the booting menu and everything that goes with it. o right ... reread the above..... Ubuntu.... should be sweet, allthough i haven't played ubuntu for at least a year now. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 445381 | 2006-04-11 09:17:00 | Ok then I will reformat it to what ever, no hassle. Either Ubuntu or Fedora Core 5 sound the best for what a friend was saying will be best for me. |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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