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"I totally love Linux - Carmen Electra"
So Jesse813, how are ya liking PCLinux so far?
I can't remember...did you have to update to 2009 or did you clean install the 2009 version?
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"I totally love Linux - Carmen Electra"
So Jesse813, how are ya liking PCLinux so far?
I can't remember...did you have to update to 2009 or did you clean install the 2009 version?
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I just did a clean install, so far everything PClinuxOS is awesome!
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Carmen Electra was in Epic Movie and Disaster Movie. Fail.
I'm still undecided about switching to KDE 4 yet or not. I'm kinda worried about the update (rahter than clean install) would have problems like when I updated 2007 up to 2009.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesse813
I'll Probably do a clean install when they officially move onto KDE4 since I don't have much stuff installed besides the OS and it would take less than 20 mins to DL it again.
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It was a pain with 2007--->2009 because I was a noob with 2007 and didn't have a separate "/home" partition. I had a huge chunk of HD that was not really being used (195gig) while I saved everything to my 16gb first partition.
I hope that since I did a fresh install on a newer (larger) HDD, and have an actual "/home", a fresh install won't be so time consuming as before. I can just reformat "/".
I went overboard when I first started out, having nearly everything on separate partitions: /, /boot, /etc, /var, /tmp, /home... These days, I just stick to the primary three: /, swap, and /home. When updating to a new major release (or changing to another distro), I boot a LiveCD, change the name of the old user home directory, then install the new version/distro telling it to format /, and create a user with the same name as I used before. So I'll have a clean root, a new user with the same name I used before, and all my old stuff in /home/user-old already chowned by the user name I'm using now. Makes it super easy to copy over what I want, then I can delete the old user directory.
If I do just format "/" and install 2010, I'd still be using the same usernames (mine, hers, and root), so I shouldn't have any problems with accessing the /home stuff I have already.
Right?
If you specify an existing user, it will overwrite any files that are the same, and if something changes, you then have a mix of the old stuff and the new stuff. The desktop is particularly bad about this as they often change the desktop between versions. I find it just cleaner to rename the old user, install clean with the old name, then copy over anything I need. Just overwriting the old user works best when just updating with the same distro. It's the most trouble when changing distros. :)
The only thing is that backing up what I have (and what she has) can be done on a single CD or DVD, it won't really be anything to do that.
The only pain in the ass part was getting the other minor programs that we used and changing KDE to look like we want it to. But this is going to be a jump to KDE 4, and I'm gonna have to do that stuff anyway...
Chilly Willy's three-partition strategy is the way to go IMHO. Having your user files on a separate partition saves you a lot of trouble with backups whenever you want to reinstall your system. And Linux generally does not like it if you don't create a swap partition, so that is recommended too. Any further partitioning only makes sense if you have very specific needs, i.e. you are a power user.
Slightly more on-topic: I'm more of an Ubuntu user. I've had that installed on my computers for several years now, and it's gotten only better over time. Before that, I mostly used more bare-bones Debian installations, and before that I used Mandrake (as it was called back then) to get to grips with Linux in general.
Are you really flattening your machine that often that a separate OS partition is needed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Devil N
Using partitions made sense in the dark ages of 640x800 VGA displays, 12GB hard drives and Pentium Pro stickers - but in this day and age where all my important shit is both on a removable USB hard drive and backed up to the cloud, operating systems don't need major tweaking out-of-the-box, but also storage is cheaper, larger and more reliable than ever - I don't see the point in disconnecting OS and user data on a home machine.
Just my 2p :)
I have all my important files or those I'd like to carry over backed up on my USB drive. it's mostly just a bunch of documents relating to my business and family pics.
The Carmen Electra-approval in this thread seems to be deteriorating! :p
The separate root and home means when you update, you can FORMAT THE ROOT partition for an absolute clean install, while not formatting the home to save all your precious data without needing to move it elsewhere first (but always have backups!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Elusive
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Thanks for clearing that up Chilly :)
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I believe that PCLinux is an offshoot of Mandrake/Mandrivia or something. I think its takes some stuff from a few places actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Devil N
I remember when I was gonna try some live CD's to see what I liked, I had Kubuntu and PCLinux. Only PCLinux worked on the computer I had at the time.
Well... yes. In-place OS upgrades are nice and all, but in my experience they tend to make a royal mess of things. Also, any OS will clog up after using it for an extended period of time, so a fresh install is desirable every once in a while. And with my data stored on separate partitions, all I have to worry about then is reinstalling the OS while everything else remains the way it was, and I can be completely up and running again within a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elusive
Besides that, having partitions is obviously not about safely storing your data; hard drives should never be considered safe for that purpose. It's about keeping things neatly organized, limiting fragmentation (yes, even with modern filesystems that still happens) and making life easier whenever a part of your system needs cleaning up.
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Seems like unnecessary work just to track an IP address.
Apparently "CSI:NY" is turning into CSI:Miami.
"I'll commit arson to a public bench, using gasoline & fire...to see if we can find rusty's telephone number."
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That new update caused all sorts of crazy noises in Firefox and Chromium, luckily i fixed it after looking through the forums.
I didn't have any problems with Firefox, no more than I usually do.
Thunderbird 3 will take some time to accept its changes.
I guess it was just me and a few other people than.
I saw you over at the other forum, in the "What would you pay for Windows?" thread.
yes i was busy talking bad about :yuck:Windows ME:yuck:, that really was total garbage though.
I'm going to get a netbook and test this distro over the holidays.
Might end up hackintoshing it to an older OSX too, but not sure.
I was spared the lamefest that was ME. Went from 98 to XP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesse813
Still use 98 for gaming.
You will find me over there posting (sporadically), I'm the user with the Brock Sampson avatar. :mrgreen:
I never had ME installed on any of my computers, but used it a few times since a few friends had it very briefly and they never liked it and everyone else I talked to about it didn't like it, and of course i remember the Media bashing ME a lot too.
No wonder; ME was entirely unnecessary.
Windows 2000 was rolled out 6 months prior to it and was based on a more reliable NT backbone.
Everyone welcomed the switchover, but apparently Microsoft didn't get the memo.
At least it's not as horrific as "Microsoft Bob." :lol:
Yeah, "Microsoft Eric" was totally better. More secure as well.
looks like PClinuxOS is finally switching from KDE3.5 to KDE4 and that PClinuxOS2010 is about to be released any day now.
Link to the info?
well thats the word on the Forums over there particularly in the KDE4 section.
I used to use Linux back in the day.
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anyone here try the PClinuxOS2010 BETA yet? I've tried it on the Live CD and seems good so far, haven't installed it yet
"Microsoft Bob"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster
I'm waiting for the Final. I can't wait to use KDE 4, and a PAE kernel that sees more than 3.5 gig of RAM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesse813
I'll probably wait for the official release too