My experiece installing Ubuntu Lunix 2580

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wrote on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:39:13 GMT

What?

XP is a perfect system -- until Vista comes along. Your timing is off.

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?!?

Windows cannot be "on break"; it's either active, or it's not. (Ditto for Linux.) That's the problem with dual-booting; one OS at a time.

There are suggestions around this, the simplest being tools such as VmWare or UserModeLinux. I'd have to research coLinux to see how it accomplishes things, and frankly I for one don't know if Windows is running or not while coLinux is doing its thing. In the Amiga variant AmigaOS boots up and then Linux takes over by issuing a command.

There's also possibilities in the future if one has a NUMA machine or an SMP machine that can boot N operating systems (one per processor) at once.

Also, what is your *first* backup? Win98? DOS? HURD?

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It's oversold, certainly. I prefer a clean, simple desktop like Gnome.

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Exactly. Just get Microsoft Windows Vista. It'll solve everything.

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You haven't tried Debian's deselect. :-) Of course, one might state that only the display therein is a little kludgy (the rest of it is straightforward if one can tolerate curses-era stuff), and I'm not one for candyware.

And if you want a *really* klunky interface, try Gentoo without helpers. :-) Then again, emerge is extremely simple to use for most of the use-cases I can think of. Who needs a GUI for selecting a package when one can simply type in

# emerge x11-apps-xwininfo

and be done with it, as opposed to firing up an installer, searching for the damned thing (either by hunt-and-drag or by typing in xwininfo and clicking on "Go look for it"), and then clicking "OK, I want to install"?

Me, I've not tried Ubuntu, so can't say what it's like. But never mind.

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And precisely where did you expect the OS to be *put*? The distribution files -- e.g.,bin-mv,usr-bin-nautilus,usr-X11R6-bin-xwininfo -- have to be put somewhere.

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There's a lot of issues here; I'm not precisely where to start, actually. For starters, specifying the mountpoints allows one to put part of the OS on another disk. One could, in principle, even put part of the OS utilities and even the kernel itself on another system, using variants of NFS. One can even boot diskless.

Admittedly, these options are for more sophisticated users, but even DOS requires FDISK.

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Hm. An interesting issue, since I was unaware Knoppix had such a function. Nevertheless, one should at least have the option of editing the results.

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IDE drives are almost always booted *first*.

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Eh? Where's Windows, then? *Something* has to be loaded fromdev-hda, if only the MBR of the bootloader proper.

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dev-hda is far from arbitrary.

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(Begin cred suspension as I don't know that much about wireless except general networking issues. Personally, I'm not sure I want to touch it, except on a laptop and only with medium-grade security. :-) )

(End suspension.)

OK, you're done.

2.0 This guy sure knows a lot more than I do.

1.0 Perfect, gen-yoo-ine advocacy. Congratulations.

0.75 A knowledgable n00b who may need to brush up on some of the differences between Unix-Linux and Windows; there's a number of them. Don't worry. You'll do fine, with a little more work.

0.5 Better study to pbutt that final, mister. You've not done your homework.

0.25 Either the person is being overly picky, or somebody's trying to pull a fast one. Maybe he's endd on MicroFUD? Linux command lines and installations are not that difficult, though it helps if one knows where to read; there's a lot of stuff out there and maybe someone's stepped into the wrong cow pie on the Web.

0.0 Ye gods. This one couldn't find the back side of a clue stick. Get some antiFUD...STAT! Maybe he'll survive after that.

-1.0 Uh oh. I can't say this person is actively trying to pull the wool over, but large grains of salt and some scrubbing may be in our future.

-- Windows Vista. Because it's time to refresh your hardware. Trust us.