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[Dirtbag]

okay, I might be getting linux some time soon, partly because of the nice shizzle that vuen is displaying over here. and because vista is coming up and because I'm playing less games on the computer and not to forget that winxp is slowly falling apart.

But the ploblem is;

I tried linux a few times before and, uhh we have compatibility problems,
first of all, I use a KVM switch, previously when I had (I believe it was) Suse and I switched and got back in linux I'd lost my mouse.
With mandrake I problems with my mobo networking.

What I want;

A linux distro that I can install without have to get this from here and that from there and have fun trying to get it to work (yes I'm spoiled by windows)

Can you guys give me some advise about a nice distro that I can get? I want to be able to run at least openoffice, or else I'd better not even go into linux

Also I will be using a dual boot, so distro shouldn't bite windows, and I'd like to know what the best install sequence is

if needed;
I'm running a 2.8 ghz amd athlon on a asus a7n8x mobo with a gig of ram and a ati 9600xt.


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[Viper-Vision]

Well I would get ubuntu it's the most user friendly one around and is easy to use. I have it too though I don't use it much because I need to work with programs from adobe etc.

[salem]

Yup, ubuntu seems to be the friendliest distro at this moment.

About the mobo, i've got an Asus a7n8x-x and the mobo netcard works perfectly, and also i've managed to make the sensors work (temperature and so on). You shouldn't have any problem with drivers.

[Dirtbag]

Okay, I'm downloading some disc's now, but one of them is a live boot cd with the option to install and another is a dvd, but that's from 5.1 or something.


the live boot also supports installing, but isn't 700 meg a bit small for a complete distro? last time around I got mandrake and suse, and both were dvd's full.

Or is there less included in these distro's? (I'd assume that or the compression has gone way up )

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[Raven]

I used Ubuntu about a 2 years ago, and it wasn't much then. It sounds like the Ubuntu project has grown in leaps and bounds since then.

FWIW, I just got a live CD of Damn Small Linux, which is a knoppix / Debian distro to work properly. If I, of all people, can do that; you can do Ubuntu with no trouble at all.
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Seriously, and Raven once fried a CPU. I'd suggest Ubuntu as well. It's really easy to pick up and get going with.
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[Dirtbag]

well, I tried the live disc, and all went well ( a bit slo, what does one expect ) but I couldn't acces my one fat32 disc, nor my network. I don't know but I could guess that that is a way of protecting the existing system. Also, I assume there stille isn't ntfs support for linux as of yet? Because I sometimes handle iso's that exceed the fat32 filesize limit.
BTW, does it matter if the drive from another computer that I tried to acces in Ubuntu is either NTFS or FAt32?

for everything else, it worked good, I didn't have trouble with the kvm switch, and all systems worked fom the start.


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[Cyberfrog]

NTFS write support is not included from the get-go, and it sounds like it's best not to risk installing the "hack", or whatever you want to call it. You should get read access to NTFS partitions though.

Instead of FAT32, I have used Ext3 in Linux and installed a driver (http://www.fs-driver.org/) for Windows (i.e. both Linux and Windows can both read and write to the Ext3 partition(s)). Has worked great so far.

[Dirtbag]

so there's a windows driver that allows you to acces linux drives, good, the other way arround but still good

doesn't answers the quetion if I should be able to acces ntfs drives over the network tho.

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[Vuen]

[Dirtbag]

well the only drive I have that is fat is my documents drive and weill keep it that way, it doesn't need to be fast, the only thing I want it to be is reliable and secure, maybe secure can bugger up in fat but I never had that happen without the drive itself being borked.

I know I can share drives with samba, and I even gotten it to work once in mandrake I believe, I also found the add/remove program stingemebob in ubuntu and I've scrolled through there for a small peek.

I use outlook quite a bit, for email but also for everything calander, it has appointments birthdays etc etc, what program can I use best in linux to copy the same functionality in one program, and what fileformat is best to copy my entire outlook to that program

btw, I started this topic here because I thought this was the best place to put it, because it is techie


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[Dirtbag]

well this cookie is in the oven and waiting to be fully baked

At this mometn I'm installing win xp fresh, and will make that a basic install, to be able to return to, after that Ubuntu will have it's turn


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to avoid a multipost.

funky shit..

I backupped my files from winxp to another drive, I booted the xp disc, and wiped 4 partitions from a 120 gig drive leaving my documents drive intact (as intended of course ) I make a new partition of 40 gig on the 120 gig drive, leaving about 80 for linux, I install win xp, and the first thing that draws my attention...

My trash bin is full, all the files that I had in there are still there, and that after having the entire drive wiped clean!

So if you want to have something survive a entire wipe.... put it in your trashbin, way to go windows



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