• Paul D. Anderson <paul.d.removethis.anderson comcast.andthis.net> Aug 27 2009
• "Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> Aug 27 2009
• Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Aug 28 2009
• language_fan <foo bar.com.invalid> Aug 28 2009
• Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> Sep 02 2009

Paul D. Anderson <paul.d.removethis.anderson comcast.andthis.net> writes:

Paul D. Anderson Wrote:

 I'm going to add Linux to my PC to get a dual-boot configuration. (I'm tired
of sloooow start ups and want to tap into the great tools available.) The
tutorial I'm looking at suggests Ubuntu. Is there a significant difference in
Linux implementations? Is Ubuntu one of the better ones? Does it make a
difference for running D2?
 
 Thanks in advance for your hellp.
 
 Paul
 


Thanks to everyone who contributed to my off-topic question. I installed Ubuntu
over the weekend. It took me a couple of tries to get it right (mostly because
I couldn't decide how to partition the disk) but the installation process was
so painless that it wasn't hard to redo it. Now I'm getting acquainted with the
OS. :-)

Thanks again!

Paul

"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> writes:

Paul D. Anderson wrote:
 Paul D. Anderson Wrote:
 
 I'm going to add Linux to my PC to get a dual-boot configuration. (I'm tired
of sloooow start ups and want to tap into the great tools available.) The
tutorial I'm looking at suggests Ubuntu. Is there a significant difference in
Linux implementations? Is Ubuntu one of the better ones? Does it make a
difference for running D2?

 Thanks in advance for your hellp.

 Paul


 Thanks to everyone who contributed to my off-topic question. I installed
Ubuntu over the weekend. It took me a couple of tries to get it right (mostly
because I couldn't decide how to partition the disk) but the installation
process was so painless that it wasn't hard to redo it. Now I'm getting
acquainted with the OS. :-)
 
 Thanks again!
 
 Paul



Good luck! Always afraid of unfamilar territory, I first tried Linux in 
a dual-boot setup too, several years ago. I think it took about a week 
before I deleted the Windows partition, and I've been using Linux 
exclusively ever since. :)

-Lars

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
 Paul D. Anderson wrote:
 Paul D. Anderson Wrote:

 I'm going to add Linux to my PC to get a dual-boot configuration. 
 (I'm tired of sloooow start ups and want to tap into the great tools 
 available.) The tutorial I'm looking at suggests Ubuntu. Is there a 
 significant difference in Linux implementations? Is Ubuntu one of the 
 better ones? Does it make a difference for running D2?

 Thanks in advance for your hellp.

 Paul


 Thanks to everyone who contributed to my off-topic question. I 
 installed Ubuntu over the weekend. It took me a couple of tries to get 
 it right (mostly because I couldn't decide how to partition the disk) 
 but the installation process was so painless that it wasn't hard to 
 redo it. Now I'm getting acquainted with the OS. :-)

 Thanks again!

 Paul


 
 Good luck! Always afraid of unfamilar territory, I first tried Linux in 
 a dual-boot setup too, several years ago. I think it took about a week 
 before I deleted the Windows partition, and I've been using Linux 
 exclusively ever since. :)
 
 -Lars


Same here! And the step looked unconceivable just a couple months 
earlier. I remember how a friend who was in the beginning stages of 
Linux asked me several times and very incredulously: "What do you mean 
you don't have Windows at all on your laptop?"


Andrei

language_fan <foo bar.com.invalid> writes:

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:18:57 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu thusly wrote:

 Same here! And the step looked unconceivable just a couple months
 earlier. I remember how a friend who was in the beginning stages of
 Linux asked me several times and very incredulously: "What do you mean
 you don't have Windows at all on your laptop?"


Linux has matured a lot since the early days. When I first tried it, it 
took me 4 years and 2 PC upgrades to get a compatible graphics card which 
was able to display anything other than the 80x25 text mode and 
320x200x4b on xfree86. No, I don't want to manually type some weird bit 
counts and internal clock frequencies ever again!

I bought my first nvidia card in 1999 and everything has worked almost 
flawlessly since then. And that's not even the worst part, 10 years ago 
there was no ntfs write support, many sound drivers sucked, hotplug 
sucked, 56k internal modem drivers sucked, even the mouse drivers acted 
randomly, fscking ext2 (ext3 didn't exist yet!) was dreadfully slow, and 
the distro cds came with broken compiler packages. The fresh new 
installation was mostly useful for learning bash and perl, but not much 
more, a graphical desktop would have been something awesome.

Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Nick Sabalausky<a a.a> wrote:
 And if anyone knows how to edit a system-settings text file without
 dropping to the command-line and doing "sudo gedit blahfile &" (and without
 having to start out with "sudo pwd" or "sudo echo" just so the "sudo gedit
 &" does something useful instead of creating a background process that sits
 and waits for input that'll never come from a prompt that I'll never see),
 then *please*, let me know.


That's what gksu - or on KDE, kdesu - is for. ;)