mazmac24 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I don't know if I should redo my computer to Linus from Windows XP Pro. The Linux version i'm getting is Mandriva 2006 i586. I'm confused... :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 What do you want to do with your computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazmac24 Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 Have it run fast and well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Have it run fast and well. Linux/BSD/MAC OS X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I'm happy with Windows, Linux and BSD. All operating systems run fast when you install them and will continue to run fast if you look after them and get rid of the crap that builds up over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metatron Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I’m happy with all operating systems I run, they all do the job they are designed to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I prefer linux, its just more fun! But dending on what you want to do its almost like you have to run windows. I'd say.. Duel Boot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I'd say don't dule boot, it's a real, hassle, get two computer and two monitors or a KVM switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty D Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 how is that a hassle at all? If anything is a hassle it would be to buy antoher computer just to run another operating system and use some crazy switch, go with grub it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I'm starting to really hate grub. It doesn't work with a number of filesystems (most notably, Reiser4), and I also never managed to get it to install on a RAID1 partition. Lilo has no problems with either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duelus Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 each OS has his/hers pro's and con's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Yep... That's why I use DOS, Windows (many versions), MacOS, RISCOS, Amiga Workbench and very occasionally Linux ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ Guy :D Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 windows, just cause im lazy and linux involves more effort, i do like it but i dont like the time it takes to get it how you want it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 Linux doesn't take any more effotr than windows to use. Your just to lazy to learn how to use linux effectively and make the switch because you have been brought up only knowing windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZ Guy :D Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 i know how to use linux just fine, but the amount of setup to get it working with the same effectiveness is larger and you cannot denie that, things like speedstep all the little nitty gritty things you probably dont think about also a big thing for me was boot up time and software suspend which is to slow for my liking. There are things i would use linux for and things i would use windows for, as far as my general use laptop goes, windows all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheZ Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I am happy with windows. I have been messing around with linux latley just for the hell of it. I is a pretty cool OS and the dostro i am using(ubuntu) is pretty cool and easy to use. I use windows because i know it and because all of my favorite games run on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comcipher Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I use windows primarily but use Linux on the side some just to mess around. Linux has alot going for it and with popular distros like Ubuntu it's gotten a hell of alot better over the years. That said, it still does take more effort / knowledge to get working properly. Dual booting is the answer, and it's not difficult at all to setup. Every major linux distro can automatically set it up for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazmac24 Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 I use windows primarily but use Linux on the side some just to mess around. . That's what I want. To mess around with Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 You're probably best off with either a dual-boot setup, or something like VMWare that is basically an emulator for a PC. Dual-boot involves creating at least 2 partitions on your disk, installing Windows on the one and Linux on the other, and installing a so-called bootloader that, as the system boots, will present you with a menu from where you can pick which OS to actually start. VMWare, as an emulator, allows you to assign some resources to its virtual machine, and install the OS on there. So if you want the virtual machine to have 10 GB of diskspace (which, for Linux, is a lot), VMWare will create a 10 GB file in Windows and present that to the virtual machine as if it were a harddisk. In much the same way, you can assign, say, 128 MB of memory to the virtual machine, which can then be used by the OS running inside the virtual machine. As long as the OS is running in VMWare, this memory will be in use. Once you stop VMWare (and thus, the OS running inside it), this memory will be returned to your machine for you to use at your leasure. The advantage of VMWare is that you don't need to do any fancy stuff to your machine, like repartition your harddrive. The downside of VMWare is that it's an emulator, and because of this it will be slower than when you're dual-booting into the other OS. Note that VMWare is a commercial product, but they do provide the VMWare Player for free, and I'm sure you can find some VMWare OS images for Linux and such to play with. Everything will be pre-installed so you'd lose out there, but it should still provide a nice starting point for playing around with Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!l33t Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 I'd say don't dule boot, it's a real, hassle, get two computer and two monitors or a KVM switch. In the case of dual booting Windows with a *nix, just install Windows first and your installer for *nix should take care of autodetecting it and putting the Windows information in the lilo.conf or grub.conf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 That is not the hassle it causes me. It just anoys me that I have to restart my computer when I want to change which OS i'm running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 Then you'll definately want something like VMWare (Bochs perhaps? It's called differently these days. Google is your friend) as you can even suspend your OS and pick up where you left off later. Better yet, you can set it up that it won't commit any harddisk writes, so on the next boot you've got your original install back, regardless! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 In the case of dual booting Windows with a *nix, just install Windows first and your installer for *nix should take care of autodetecting it and putting the Windows information in the lilo.conf or grub.conf. Never managed to get that to work, with Suse, a Slax varient or Ubuntu. Is there something you have to tell the installer to do? Or is it a case of if it works, it works, if not, go suck it down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazmac24 Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 You know that site with the Linux mirrors? For Mandriva-Linux, do you need all 3 cd's or just one. I got this one and have yet to try it... Mandriva-Linux-Free-2006-CD1.i586 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comcipher Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 Never managed to get that to work, with Suse, a Slax varient or Ubuntu. Is there something you have to tell the installer to do? Or is it a case of if it works, it works, if not, go suck it down? I've never had a problem with it, and I install various distro's many times throughout the year. Generally when you're going through the setup menu you can choose empty space from your windows partition, or unformatted space to install everything to. Usually I use something like partition magic and resize any existing partitions before I go to install linux. Often makes the process easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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