Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (11 Viewers)

[Martin]

Organizations do this a lot, but then they have /home mounted remotely from a file server via nfs and that sort of trickery. Obviously, unix was designed to do this, that's why the filesystem is the way it is.

I don't like to divide it up like that, because /home has a dependency on the apps you have installed, the config files and all. Instead, I use separate partitions and disks for stuff that is just data, no settings. I have one local partition mounted at /st and a usb drive mounted at /qt. I don't know how I came up with those names, just as long as they are short.

 

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[gray]

The Ibex has been unleashed

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

huh?

EDIT: Intrepid.. oh!

 

[V]

Link? All I can find is RC.

 

[gray]

http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10/

 

[gray]

I've been using Intrepid for about half a day now, and I must say that I'm impressed.

It seems like a very stable, solid release with none of the bells and whistles that are included just to please the crowd that wants massive changes.

 

[gray]

Organizations do this a lot, but then they have /home mounted remotely from a file server via nfs and that sort of trickery. Obviously, unix was designed to do this, that's why the filesystem is the way it is.

I don't like to divide it up like that, because /home has a dependency on the apps you have installed, the config files and all. Instead, I use separate partitions and disks for stuff that is just data, no settings. I have one local partition mounted at /st and a usb drive mounted at /qt. I don't know how I came up with those names, just as long as they are short.

Hmmm ok, I was considering it, what with upgrading to Intrepid and all that... but I'll probably give it a pass.

btw Martin, could you give us a realistic look into the daily experience of a Gentoo user? Just how much hacking and customisation and compiling does it usually involve?

I'm probably pretty far from the point that I'd consider switching, but I can definitely see the merits in the Gentoo way, and I'm curious as to the pros and cons.

 

[JCK]

Graham,, even Martin abandoned Gentoo.

 

[Martin]

Graham,, even Martin abandoned Gentoo.

lies

Hmmm ok, I was considering it, what with upgrading to Intrepid and all that... but I'll probably give it a pass.

btw Martin, could you give us a realistic look into the daily experience of a Gentoo user? Just how much hacking and customisation and compiling does it usually involve?

I'm probably pretty far from the point that I'd consider switching, but I can definitely see the merits in the Gentoo way, and I'm curious as to the pros and cons.

I wouldn't say daily. I go a month without doing anything. What separates gentoo is that it has a learning curve. I hesitate to say "very steep" or "a little steep" because various people have different experiences. What you achieve with gentoo is that you get an insight into how programs magically become binaries, what happens when the system boots, a more powerful package manager that gives you a lot more options than just "install/remove" and generally just more "hands on". That isn't to say you do these things in detail, that would be "linux from scratch" or something. The Gentoo Handbook you use when installing tells you a lot about what an automated installer actually does.

What I'm driving at is once you reach the "plateau" of understanding, it's not that complicated. More complicated than ubuntu obviously, but it's meant to be. Ubuntu is founded on the principle "simple distro done right". Gentoo is founded on "simple distro can never be done right, so we give you all the tools to make your own choices".

 

[JCK]

lies

Aren't you using Ubuntu? And Gnome not even KDE?

 

[Martin]

I use both everyday. And KDE3 on both.

 

[JCK]

Why do you use two operating systems?

By the way, my Lenovo arrived but I get it next weekend

 

[Martin]

Because they have different strengths. And because I treat my old dell as a desktop replacement while the toshiba is more like a portable.

 

[JCK]

What OS do you have on your Toshiba?

 

[Martin]

Ubuntu on the toshiba.

 

[JCK]

I knew the answer already, thus the smiley.

 

[Martin]

I'm sure I've mentioned it a bunch of times already

 

[JCK]

That's why I think you abandoned Gentoo.

 

[V]

Anybody saw new Windows7 stills?

Seems, awfully KDE-like, the design anyway.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

i installed Kubuntu andmy internet doesnt work!!! tried almost everything i could find, and im not at a place when i can overwrite a file/folder /etc/resolv.conf with the DNS server name, but not sure if that'll work, or make things more complicated!

im just gonna install Ubuntu... it has always seemed to work better anyways!


EDIT: fuck that! i took a chance and seemed to have resolved it on my own!