Which LINUX should I use ?

[mehulved]

yeah got confused. Disk drake is for mandrake. D and H partitions are on a different disk na. Both the disk will be detected as different discs in linux. one will be hda and other hdb. Or sda and sdb for SATA drives. So, if you're using the whole drive partition it using disk druid. If you can provide your partition structure and which partitions are on which disk, this will make things clearer.

[kato]

Okay lets see I will try to put the proper list
1) My 80 GB Hrad disk is divided into following
(C: ) System 18.63 GB
(E: ) 18.63 GB
(F: ) 18.63 GB
(G: ) 18.63 GB

2) My 40 GB Hard Disk is divided into following
(D: ) Active 12.45 GB
(H: ) 24.79 GB


I dont know why it says D drive active eventhough i have formatted it. Now my WIndows is in C drive and i want to use D and H as for Linux.

[mehulved]

Well windows disk mgmt will format it to FAT32 or NTFS. Just leave it as they're and let fdisk(Ubuntu) or Disk Druid do the work. I guess ubuntu will detect your drive as 'hda'. Check if hda is 40 GB, if yes then format it, or else format hdb and install the distro(s).
You can have a look here if you 're installing Ubuntu and haven't seen any installation videos for it.

[kato]

Hey what about my question as its D drive will it affect my XP in anyways after installing Linux

Hey thanks for the linkie its very goood

[mehulved]

No not at all except AFAICR, your drives will be renamed. So, atmost the problems you will have is if you got links pointing to other drives, they will malfunction. If no software is installed on other drives except C, or you haven't made any such links yourself, then you won't have problems.

[kato]

So there wont be any probs I guess SO can anyone tell me a good Partition plan for installing Linux I may start with FC5(coz it has Anaconda Installer which looks easy) as its coming out by 20th I will be downloading it through Torrents. And its very easy to install(I think so). But I will also Install Ubuntu later so I want to know how should I make partitions for Linux keeping in mind the future installation of Ubuntu.

[mehulved]

Installing linux is as easy as installing windows if not easier. Only tricky step is partitioning, that too only fro first timers. Otherwise it is very easy to install linux.
A partition scheme I usually follow for a 40 GB hard disk is
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/boot 100MB
/home 10GB
/ ~10GB
/windows 15GB
swap 550MB

You can adjust according to your needs. If you have fat32 partition on other hard disk you needn't make that one. You can make a 5GB /usr partition too. and make /home as 20 GB.
Or I would rather recommend to leave the 15GB for Ubuntu.

[kato]

So let me see I can make something Like this.

/ for Fedora Core around 10 GB
/home for all my files around 10GB
/swap around 550 MB

Now that leaves 20.5 GB approx
I will install Ubuntu in around 15 GB or so.
Is this right? I am not using boot as its not necessary as DW had said earlier. And am I leaving anything and where will all my softies be installed in such partition

[mehulved]

There's not one place for installation of softwares in linux. There are many places like /bin, /sbin, /usr, /opt ,sometimes even /home. So don't worry about that part. It will be taken care on its own.
Have a look at Linux Filesystem Hierarchy. It will throw a light on issues which you're concerned like partitioning, where the softwares are installed and more. Read it before installing FC, it will help you a lot.
Another documentation worth reading is Introduction to Linux.
Read them before installing linux they will help you a lot in understanding linux.
And if you want to go further there are a lot more documentations available at TLDP

[kato]

With help from everyone i installed Ubuntu and thanks you for that to everyone. The only problem i seem to have is that i can see all my windows partition in it and even the file but i dont see my linux partitions in it. How come this is happening

[mehulved]

Go to places -> computer -> filesystem that's your linux filesystem.

[coolblue]

OK i think this would be an interesting thread


WHICH IS UR MOST FAVOURITE DISTRO & WHY?

Plz dont start Distro Wars Episode One here .....just mention ur favourite distro & WHY u like it above all others..keep it short, simple & peaceful

If I had to choose just one distro from the entire crowd, I'd go for Suse (Suse 10.1).

Reasons are obvious:
1. Comes on 5 CDs plus an add-on CD with non-oss stuff (which is really good for we indians as most of us have slow/no internet)
See full list here http://www.novell.com/products/linux...index_all.html
2. Has Wine, Opera, Kdeedu, Supertux and many nice collection of apps
3. YAST!!! (So simple & superb!)
4. KDE-centric (I like KDE)
5. Detects all my hardware (FC5 & Ubuntu won't detect my serial mouse while Suse did)

If I had to choose a livecd...well...I'd say Kanotix (excellent hardware detection), Elive 0.4.2 (it comes with Wine, w32codecs & libdvdcss2 pre-installed!) & PCLinuxOS (we all know why its so nice!! Best newbie distro! Has java, flash, w32codecs, mplayer, VLC...)

Would love to know what others like...plz mention the reasons as well.

If Ubuntu offered extra CDs for download, I would have gone with that.
Its otherwise pretty good coz its debian-based and has huge repos of stuff.

Cheers

[FatBeing]

merging with existing thread...

[vignesh]

Try a livecd before plunging in... You can start with Mandravia...

[Dipen01]

Howz Mandriva 2007 compared to Mandriva 2006...

well i havent used linux much apart frm some coding in vi.... but nw am trying to switch to linux..

i have Mandriva 2006 and Ubuntu 6.06 (i guess)..

which one should i try..!!

[mehulved]

I am on Mandriva 2007 for now. But, I just don't like it.
KDE seems too be too slow compared to some debian flavour and I can't find a few things like firefox 2 and jre repos for it.

[JGuru]

@Mehul , Mandriva always runs slow. I don't know why. It's a very distro for beginners.

[praka123]

if Mandriva is so slow?then what about their server editions...

[mehulved]

Maybe they've bloated up the GUI to make it too simplistic for end users. I feel they've oversimplified most of the things to the point of making it hard to operate for people like me.
BTW, can anyone help me in finding some repo that can give me jre? Anyways I am not keeping mandriva for more than 2-3.

[Dipen01]

Originally Posted by Dipen01

Howz Mandriva 2007 compared to Mandriva 2006...

well i havent used linux much apart frm some coding in vi.... but nw am trying to switch to linux..

i have Mandriva 2006 and Ubuntu 6.06 (i guess)..

which one should i try..!!

SO what do u ppl suggest..??

UBUNTU or MANDRIVA

coz i read in sm other post..!! that
its complicated to configure GPRS on UBUNTU..!!

and yeah i can be counted in completely NOOB with linux

[caleb]

Originally Posted by tech_your_future

Before ordering the cd's do check with your city's LUG's if they do have a set of distribution you want. For mumbai, the ILUG has put up a list of available cd's on its site, you can contact them and get. I have myself got 3 set of ubuntu cd's for x86, if anyone in mumbai wants it I can give it to them.

Three questions:

1. Ubuntu is better? or Mandriva 2007 is better? (for a newbie like me)...I just installed Madnriva 2007 yesterday...I don't find it as a simple OS...plus I find it slow for my liking...I'm keeping it just because I saw the DVD from either PC World / Digit November issue (at my friends place & made a copy of it on a DVD)...apart from that "2007" sounds like from the future...hehehe...so I just installed it to give Linux a try.

2. In the earlier post you said "I am on Mandriva 2007 for now. But, I just don't like it.
KDE seems too be too slow compared to some debian flavour and I can't find a few things like firefox 2 and jre repos for it." Keeping that in mind, is it better to choose Gnome...I say this coz when I was installing Mandriva 2007 it gave me the option to choose between KDE & Gnome...is Gnome that better than KDE?

3. I live in Borivli & I can meet you anywhere you want in Mumbai (I can give you blank CD's or DVD's for burning the 3 set Ubuntu CD's you have) let me know how to get a hold of you.

[kalpik]

Yeah, personally if you ask me, Ubuntu is much better than Mandriva. Also gnome is a lot more stable and a little faster than KDE (my personal experience).

[mehulved]

Well celeb those are my personal opinions and don't really apply generally. I am a bit averse to rpm based distros(if you don't know about it, read the sticky 'These topics have been covered'. There's a link to thread where these differences have been explained). Ubuntu is no doubt simple but I cannot compare it with Mandriva cos I have used Ubuntu for a lot longer than Mandriva.
But, I can say for one, having used slackware in the past, configuring everything by GUI in Mandriva seems a pain.
The thing between GNOME and KDE is, GNOME is a very light and simplistic, no bells and whistles. So, it uses lesser resources. On the other hand KDE is very much functional out of the box. So, it consumes more resources.
But, KDE can be tweaked to use less resources and GNOME for more functionality.
Well I don't think I have a CD of Ubuntu 6.06 for now. But if you need it I can download it for you and give it to you. It's just one CD but it's really minimal but has good enough to cover the basic requirements. But, it doesn't suffice people like me.

[caleb]

Thanks t_y_f & kalpik. I already have ubuntu 6.06 but thanks for the offer.

[mehulved]

Then you can try out ubuntu from them and see if you like it.

[caleb]

Originally Posted by tech_your_future

Then you can try out ubuntu from them and see if you like it.

I am going to try it today. Hey t_y_f would you be so kind to check my post Mandriva 2007 Questions Of A Novice & let me know the answer for my last post, when u have time?

Thanks

[tty?]

i think if u really want privilege of “controlling”
ur system then u must stay away from
distros like mandriva n suse (not offending).
I vouch debian philosophy so
UBUNTU is the best choice.....gud for every 1
& newbies should opt for DREAMLINUX
2 rzons
1#DL plays almost all formats audio n video
(except FLV) day 2 day use, its like plug n play
2#& DL has all stable packages unlike ubuntu ,
so its exceptionally stable even in case of touchscreens n scanners....

[NucleusKore]

After the infamous agreement was signed between Novell and Microsoft I switched to Ubuntu. Ubuntu is light on the system resources when compared to SuSE.