Over on the FlickR UKB thread the topic of *nix came up. Far be it from me to drag that topic off topic I thought I would start another thread, as I have some questions for slack--line. I would use the PM system, but you never know, someone out there may find this useful. So, having worked in an IT job for years I've always flirted with *nix but never quite got there. I think I have always felt its a bit of a challenge to accomplish quite a lot of stuff under *nix, especially when I know how to do it with my eyes shut under windows, and there has seemed to be a significant prerequisite knowledge required for working with *nix that I just didnt have time to learn. So, this time when windows needed rebuilding I first went to Vista which made my machine run like a dog, so I rebuilt it to Suse - and apart from some teething problems its chuffing brilliant. And free! I love it. I think the last time I looked it was red hat 7.2 and I didnt get on great with it. Seems that the community have done a lot to improve the usability of the OS and although still a learning curve I have managed to get everything I want to do done with a bit of tinkering.
So, questions. Slack--line - which is better gnome or kde? I am running kde at the moment as I think that must have been the default. How do i install gnome? YaST I suppose... assuming I manage to get it installed can I choose which to boot to or how do I switch between them?
I'm loving Ubuntu as the new server OS for this place - everything is so easy and just works. Not sure i'm really ready to use Linux on the desktop yet - can photoshop/lightroom/other major win apps be easily and properly replaced yet? For free?
I'm almost tempted to give it a whirl I might try it first on my very very old laptop that struggles with win xp - will linux run better on an old machine? I also might try it on another old desktop.
Is it possible to keep any of your windows file system intact and just install linux to replace the C:/ drive? I realise that's a very nobby question but i've only used desktop windows for years now.
I might try it first on my very very old laptop that struggles with win xp - will linux run better on an old machine? Is it possible to keep any of your windows file system intact and just install linux to replace the C:/ drive? I realise that's a very nobby question but i've only used desktop windows for years now.
I really like the concept of symbolic links. Keep your files wherever you want them and create a symbolic link to them in your document root.
Quote from: Bubba on September 20, 2007, 01:48:12 pmI might try it first on my very very old laptop that struggles with win xp - will linux run better on an old machine? Is it possible to keep any of your windows file system intact and just install linux to replace the C:/ drive? I realise that's a very nobby question but i've only used desktop windows for years now. This is just what I have done. Copy off anything you have on C and let the linux installer blat the partition, accept its suggestions for repartitioning that bit of your drive (swap partitions and all that stuff) and let it work its magic. On my box it mounted the NTFS drive with all my files on as /windows/C which is great except that it mounted it as a read only filesystem. A quick google told me how to mend and its all ticketty boo. I really like the concept of symbolic links. Keep your files wherever you want them and create a symbolic link to them in your document root. And its free. And its secure. I do kinda wish I had discovered this ubuntu thing before choosing suse, but it doesnt really matter.
Quote from: dobbin on September 24, 2007, 09:08:37 amThis is just what I have done. Copy off anything you have on C and let the linux installer blat the partition, accept its suggestions for repartitioning that bit of your drive (swap partitions and all that stuff) and let it work its magic. On my box it mounted the NTFS drive with all my files on as /windows/C which is great except that it mounted it as a read only filesystem. A quick google told me how to mend and its all ticketty boo. I really like the concept of symbolic links. Keep your files wherever you want them and create a symbolic link to them in your document root. And its free. And its secure. I do kinda wish I had discovered this ubuntu thing before choosing suse, but it doesnt really matter. I'm just running under ubuntu live and can't see my partitions, apart from the external HD. I take it that if I blat the windows on C:, the other 2 partitions will become part of the linux filesystem?
This is just what I have done. Copy off anything you have on C and let the linux installer blat the partition, accept its suggestions for repartitioning that bit of your drive (swap partitions and all that stuff) and let it work its magic. On my box it mounted the NTFS drive with all my files on as /windows/C which is great except that it mounted it as a read only filesystem. A quick google told me how to mend and its all ticketty boo. I really like the concept of symbolic links. Keep your files wherever you want them and create a symbolic link to them in your document root. And its free. And its secure. I do kinda wish I had discovered this ubuntu thing before choosing suse, but it doesnt really matter.
This is just what I have done. Copy off anything you have on C and let the linux installer blat the partition, accept its suggestions for repartitioning that bit of your drive (swap partitions and all that stuff) and let it work its magic. On my box it mounted the NTFS drive with all my files on as /windows/C which is great except that it mounted it as a read only filesystem. A quick google told me how to mend and its all ticketty boo.
and people say windows is complicated....I've got better things to do with my time
I agree that the majority of people don't want to know this level of detail, and therefore would be better off with something where the t's are crossed and i's dotted for them like windows
My poor old laptop can't run Ubuntu from memory - is there a way of forcing the install disk to actually install and wipe out the existing windows installation?
It should be able to run it coz it can run XP fine.Unfortunately the whole thing hasn't gone very well though - Ubuntu just won't install - it can't partition the drive
Nah, it just sucks balls - fuck the stupid penguin