Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (16 Viewers)

[JCK]

You're welcome Graham and if you want my advice, go for kubuntu, I find it sexier than ubuntu.

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[gray]

You're welcome Graham and if you want my advice, go for kubuntu, I find it sexier than ubuntu.

What are all the differences between kubuntu and ubuntu?

Just kidding, I'll go do some research and get back to you with a decision, though I'm a bit sick of downloading and burning ISO's already

edit: ok I've taken step one; now to go and find out the differences between Gnome and KDE

edit2: ahh look what I found! http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome

edit3: hrmm it seems that this site is more of an instruction page than a comparison of the relative strengths and weaknesses

edit4: here's a better page for my purposes, linked from the same site: http://psychocats.net/essays/kdevsgnome.php

 

[JCK]

The difference is simple
ubuntu uses gnome environment kubuntu uses kde environment.

 

[V]

Nice to meet you by the way

likewise. graham right?

 

[mikhail]

I guess this thread tortures mikhael a bit

You've lost me.

 

[gray]

likewise. graham right?

That would be me :embarasse

By the way, I couldn't resist the urge to try out Ubuntu using the Live CD before installing it on my HDD, so I'm proud to announce that this is my first post using my new OS of choice (yes I'm already sold on Ubuntu after using it for about 5 minutes )

 

[Martin]

Welcome to the expanding family, Graham

 

[gray]

Welcome to the expanding family, Graham

Awww I'm already feeling the Ubuntu

 

[mikhail]

If it helps, I'm suck on a CentOS system for the next couple of weeks. It's fairly good, but I don't have the priviliges to <strike>screw up</strike> fiddle with it. I miss my bookmarks, spam filter, documents, software and everything.

As soon as flash drives are competing with hard drives for memory space (30GB is tonnes for me anyway) I'm switching to running an entire system off one. I hate being non-portible.

 

[Martin]

Awww I'm already feeling the Ubuntu

:smile:

 

[Martin]

Lots of people are doing that right now, mik. I've seen tons of howtos on how to run linux off a flashdrive, even down to 256mb. You can still mount your harddrive and access whatever is there.

 

[mikhail]

Lots of people are doing that right now, mik. I've seen tons of howtos on how to run linux off a flashdrive, even down to 256mb. You can still mount your harddrive and access whatever is there.

Oh, I know you can put an OS on one now, but I want to put everything on one. No messing about with a big external hard drive. I couldn't be bothered synching everything with a server either, and that assumes you've got a fast connection everywhere (though that's mostly true).

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

yeah, i read somewhere that you could export all your settings and data to a flash drive, then boot using live CD, restore the settings on the flash drive and use ubuntu with actually installing it!!!

ha, if ony M$ window$ users cud d that!!!!

 

[mikhail]

yeah, i read somewhere that you could export all your settings and data to a flash drive, then boot using live CD, restore the settings on the flash drive and use ubuntu with actually installing it!!!

ha, if ony M$ window$ users cud d that!!!!

Well, regardless of the live-CD, I imagine you could get Windows to boot off a flash drive alright, unless their licence forbids it. I have a feeling you might get screwed on WGA though.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Well, regardless of the live-CD, I imagine you could get Windows to boot off a flash drive alright, unless their licence forbids it. I have a feeling you might get screwed on WGA though.

hell with windows! those bloody dominators!!!

 

[gray]

Ergh, here I am back in Windows (I cringed as I booted it up again) to continue the painstaking process of backing up all of my data onto blank DVDs (I've used up the 160Gb on my iPod and external HD :embarasse))

I'm hoping to get everything onto external storage, wipe my drive (ahhh int and get this show on the road by the weekend

 

[mikhail]

(I've used up the 160Gb on my iPod and external HD :embarasse))

Sweet mother.

 

[Martin]

Oh, I know you can put an OS on one now, but I want to put everything on one. No messing about with a big external hard drive. I couldn't be bothered synching everything with a server either, and that assumes you've got a fast connection everywhere (though that's mostly true).

No, not external. I mean boot from the usb stick, mount your local harddrive and access that data there. You can fit a pretty decent linux system on say 2gb of flash memory.

 

[Martin]

Well, regardless of the live-CD, I imagine you could get Windows to boot off a flash drive alright, unless their licence forbids it. I have a feeling you might get screwed on WGA though.

I've tried installing Vista on a usb external drive, it won't allow you. I bet it's the same with all Windows products.

 

[mikhail]

No, not external. I mean boot from the usb stick, mount your local harddrive and access that data there. You can fit a pretty decent linux system on say 2gb of flash memory.

Man, I reckon I have two gigs of papers, and that's before I start to think about the OS, software, images, local copies of websites, music... yeah, you can do it now, but it's still a bit Spartan for what I'm thinking of.