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That's pretty impressive Ad. Going from a 10.xx system to a current and up to date one with no issues. I really ought to install it tbh.

Thanks for the link dude.

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Finally got round to installing Mint 9 KDE 64 today. Took a while.

the Mint partition was 1 big 36gb partition, unliek Ubuntu, Mint don't recommend upgrading, so i decided to split the partition to have a / and /home partition.

used mintbackup to backup /home and also copied files to usb hard drive and other partition just in case. also used it to export list of installed apps.

booted into live cd, used gparted (well KDE Partion Manager the KDE equivalent) wiped the partition and made a 10gb for / and 26gb for /home

did install wizard it crashed a couple of times when i was choosing what partitions to mount where, always on the 4th one (no matter what order) so  3rd time I just chose to mount swap / and /home and will edit /etc/fstab by hand.

backup tool is currently restoring ~/.mozilla-thunderbird etc.

So far so good, too early to report anything apart from fact backup tool must have imported ~/.mozilla ok or I wouldn't be typing this now

KDE4 seems ok, hasn’t crashed yet. Bits of it seem fiddly to configure after Gnome, guess I’ll have to do some research The only issues I’ve had with it so far are known ones, like network manager not letting you set a static ip address, so remove network manager and install wicd is the fix!

The backup tool in mint works almost perfectly, it doesn't always do permissions 100% correctly. some restores were owned by user root and group root. that was mostly with .folders.


Spent a bit of time with grub 2, so if you selected openSUSE, rather than loading the kernel specified in grub.cfg it would load the grub legacy menu in the openSUSE partition, but I couldn’t get that to work. (no grub2 in openSUSE yet) so instead I migrated the missus’ .mozilla and .thunderbird to Mint, I doubt she’ll notice or care it’s different

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All sounds excellent. Both Mint and OpenSuse are getting brilliant write ups. I wanted to install OpenSuse somehow but amazingly I don't have room on the current hard drive I'm using! Windows has 160Gb which is now at the 105Gb in use mark, so I don't really want to cut back on that (unless I do decide to get rid - again!), and my Ubuntu install is at 40Gb used out of 80Gb. Now I could steal a possible 20-30Gb away from that I suppose, but I know I'll be using more at some point as I haven't even touched on my WINE apps yet. The rest is a backup partition so I can't steal space from that either. D'oh! What to do...?

Picked up Linux Format again this month. I might as well go back to subbing again at this rate. Nice issue. Interesting bit about FreeBSD that got my attention. Apparently it's gathering a fresh following from people running servers because of it's stability. Looked quite nice as a desktop too. Have you tried it?

Didn't know Suse used GRUB legacy. I thought they'd have moved to the newer one by now. Bet that could be a pain for me if I did install it. Wouldn't put me off though.

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Ooh, and before I forget, here's a nice free gift for you. They might come in handy.

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Cheers, I'll check out

I've never tried FreeBSD, I have notice though Distrowatch have been giving it mroe coverage in the weekly Monday update.

As a home user, I've never had a need to try it, or avoid it, if that make sense. Nothing about BSD, seems like a must have for me to to try on main pc, or the PII 450, much like I've never tried Frugalware, Sabayon, Arch etc, but as a hoem user who rarely gets intot he techy nittgy gritty these days, from what I read I doubt I'd notice any difference betweem the various BSDs and Linuxes.

SUSE and Grub is funny, KDE4, they were bleeding edge, but apparently GRUB2, although offers loads of new stuff (or so I read) some of legacy stuff is missing at the mo, so they're sticking with legacy. Funny thing is, oen of reasons I got anoyed with Slackware and slack based distros on PII450 is it uses LILO, and I could never get my head round LILO after the ease, flexability of GRUB.

I'm sure it can do most, if not all, of what GRUB can, but I haven't taken time to learn, but saying that, thee must be a reason not many distros use LILO now

Ubuntu suddenly playing up a bit. Getting this error every so often at boot:

Code:
GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)

Both mine and the missus' PC's, though strangely the Eee PC with UNE is not affected. Can't do anything other than tap the power button and restart, but at least it responds to that, thankfully. Looking around the Ubuntu forums and Launchpad it seems there's quite a few affected. Hope they get on it soon. Someone on the forums says they've seen it on a Mandriva install too, so I wonder what could be causing it? I'm not that up on these types of errors...

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no, not seen that one I'm afraid.

did you fix it, I'm guesing you did by installing ubuntu 10.10

I've not downloaded it yest, a guy at work said he has but not tried it yet.

while I'm here register your Linuxes

http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en

I'm not sure it's that useful but may be interesting.