Hey Boris,
one topic I'd like to add to the discussion is the choice of filesystems.
Currently ext4 is the latest and greatest filesystem for Linux. One
hing: it (apprently) is not suitable as a boot system, hence you will
need an additional partition (just 20 MB or something) for your /boot
filesystem.
Linux has pretty good drivers to access NTFS (Win XP) filesystems, so
you can us that to store shared (Win/Lin) data. One recommendation: if
you are going to access Really Big files in an intense frequency (10
GB, e.g. VMware disk files) from Linux, NTFS is a Really Bad choice
because the NTFS dirver manifests itself as a CPU hog.
Have fun!
Bart
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Willie Wonka <alienspecimen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have two assignments given to me by my fav son and wife:
>
> Build a room with traintables and install Linux on all computers at home.
>
> I started researching which Linux version to install and how to do this. Is
> it me, or the installation of it has become exponentially more complex in the
> last ten years? I ran Linux on my machines at the end of the nineties and
> the process was not so complicated...
>
> So I want to install Linux on three computers. I would like to be able to
> use Linux and Windoz on two of them and only Linux on the third. One of the
> computers that will run both OS's is a Dell minilaptop. For now I only care
> for the open office apps and gimp, but dont mind installing an entire package
> (2500 apps?)
>
> I would like recommendations on a free OS, Debian and Ubuntu are the ones I
> looked at, and clear directions how to do installation that would satisfy the
> requirements above. I dug into the plethora of info on both sites for an
> hour and still dont have the instructions at hand...
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Boris
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