TG goes Linux

[TG]

I am an IT god.

Well, OK, I know my way around PC's, networks etc that run Microsoft products.

My experience with Linux was limited to a server running one application that need no interference other than checking it was turned on and backups had been done.

I have a nice little netbook of my own (Acer Aspire One) that is mine and mine alone. It was supplied with XP and works fine.

But, out of sheer boredom and the possibilty of adding a little to the I.T CV I have installed and have been running Linux on it for a couple of weeks.

For the techies that givva fork it is Ubuntu 9.04 'Netbook Remix'

I am well impressed. Easy and fast to install and it runs smoothly and very quickly.

Opera seems to be the best browser I have tried on it, talks to MSN Messenger OK, Evolution email easy to connect to Gmail.

OpenOffice or similar will no doubt run fine when I can be arsed to download it.

Suprisingly little to unlearn.

Any experience Linux users in here?

How easy, or indeed difficult would it be to create a dual boot XP / Linux system on this?

[Snoopy]

Errrrrr................ Why would you want to ~ other than to prove it possible of course.

I have a PC that runs on Vi$ta and a laptop on Linux. Personally I find Linux easier to use with a lot less hassle. Both use Firefox as the browser and Thunderbird for emails ~ both of which I find more user friendly than anything produced by Microsoft.

Around the rest of the household members there are 3 laptops (all running XP) and one MacBook (running OSX Leopard).

The Mac user thinks her machine is the best but then show me a Mac user who doesn't claim that. It is for some design applications but I can see no reason other than that to say it is better only that it costs a f*ck of a lot more than any of the others to (i) buy and (ii) maintain

[Pastis]

            

[TG]

Errrrrr................ Why would you want to ~ other than to prove it possible of course.

Partly that of course. Plus I can have both on one machine. Plus I can put 'Can create dual boot Linux / Windows PC's in a trice' on the CV like.

[Snoopy]

I would assume that one would need a dual core processor but frankly I know nothing about pooters.

It's rather like my car ~ I can drive it, I know where to put diesel, oil and water but everything else I leave to a man trained in mechanical engineering.

[Darwins Selection]

It's rather like my car ~ I can drive it, I know where to put diesel, oil and water but everything else I leave to a man trained in mechanical engineering.

[Barman]

I am an IT god.

Well, OK, I know my way around PC's, networks etc that run Microsoft products.

My experience with Linux was limited to a server running one application that need no interference other than checking it was turned on and backups had been done.

I have a nice little netbook of my own (Acer Aspire One) that is mine and mine alone. It was supplied with XP and works fine.

But, out of sheer boredom and the possibilty of adding a little to the I.T CV I have installed and have been running Linux on it for a couple of weeks.

For the techies that givva fork it is Ubuntu 9.04 'Netbook Remix'

I am well impressed. Easy and fast to install and it runs smoothly and very quickly.

Opera seems to be the best browser I have tried on it, talks to MSN Messenger OK, Evolution email easy to connect to Gmail.

OpenOffice or similar will no doubt run fine when I can be arsed to download it.

Suprisingly little to unlearn.

Any experience Linux users in here?

How easy, or indeed difficult would it be to create a dual boot XP / Linux system on this?

Don't do it! 

I 'dual booted' all my systems about a year ago... Creating a dual boot is easy peasy but getting it back afterwards proved disastrous...

For instance, upgrading XP to Vi$ta went horribly wrong... trying to adjust partition sizes went horribly wrong, copying discs went horribly wrong... I had to low-level format to get rid of the pesky linux partition and boot loader...

And no, you don't need a dual processor to do it...

[Snoopy]

It's rather like my car ~ I can drive it, I know where to put diesel, oil and water but everything else I leave to a man trained in mechanical engineering.

To be honest I was thinking more:


Or even:

[Darwins Selection]

Welsh transvestite mechanics? 

There is a thought with which to conjure.