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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: supercollider]
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Yeah, doing a fresh install of Ubuntu/Kubuntu is easy - its just a matter of having nearly 400 gigs of stuff smeared across two 250g HD's with a few partitions on each. Trying to back up / move things around becomes a chore.

Ideally, what I should (and wanted to do) when I ran windows was have

1 windows partition that just had windows on it
1 partition for applications
1 partition for 'data' (documents, downloads, etc)

That way if I ever needed to do a format/re-install - I could just format the windows and/or application partition and not need to worry about backing stuff up as it was on a seperate one, but ended up not sticking to that system and I have crap spread all over.

I guess the linux equiv would be having my /home be mounted on it's own partition --- keep my personal data in there, then that way when doing a fresh install I wouldnt need to worry about backing stuff up (in theory...)

Either way, I got Kubuntu upgraded easily enough, hit one snag when following the directions on the page (the last apt-get install kde-desktop etc etc), as kde-desktop relied on xorg, and xorg relied on libgl1-mesa-glx -- just had to install those two first and boom - all is well.

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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: kaniz]
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yeah, I have /home on its own partition and all my media on an external harddrive, so a fresh install takes no time at all.

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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: Vvellum]
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theres a disturbing lack of gentoo users :frown:

and no wise ass has said LFS yet :laugh:


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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: K1wI]
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I use Mepis because its easy to use, easy to install, and comes with a great package selection.  :cool:


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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: kaniz]
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Either way, I got Kubuntu upgraded easily enough, hit one snag when following the directions on the page (the last apt-get install kde-desktop etc etc), as kde-desktop relied on xorg, and xorg relied on libgl1-mesa-glx -- just had to install those two first and boom - all is well.


why are you installing kubuntu that way? are you doing a server install first? you should do kde-core not kde-desktop. See thread

basically, you want to do a server install and then:

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sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install kde-core
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start


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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: Cepheus]
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I didnt like gentoo. Too much work for too little gain, in my personal opinion. I prefer arch.

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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: Vvellum]
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Definately has the most flexible package system though. portage rox0rz :laugh:


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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: Cepheus]
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I was just following the directions on the Kubuntu page of:

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Upgrading from 6.06 LTS

Users of Kubuntu 6.06 LTS can upgrade to 6.10 over the internet by following these instructions:

* NOTE: This procedure upgrades your system over the Internet, which requires a large download of several hundred megabytes.
* In Konqueror go to /etc/apt, right click on sources.list and choose Actions -> Edit as Root
* Change all instances of dapper to edgy
* Launch a console with KMenu -> System -> Konsole
* In the console run: sudo apt-get update
* In the console run: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and follow the prompts to upgrade
* In the console run: sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop python-qt3 python-kde3 ubuntu-minimal and follow the prompts to install
* Reboot your computer



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Re: What version of Linux do you use and why? [Re: kaniz]
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does anyone here use a bsd for their daily computing? how is that?


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