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Going from Fedora Core 5 to Ubuntu...

post #1 of 15
1/10/07 at 4:24pm
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Anythign i should be concerned about? I have it on a Compaq Evo N400c laptop with a 700mhz PIII with i think 768mb or ram. I also dual boot win2k, so hopefully the Ubuntu bootloader will see my win partition. But from what i have seen on the live cd it is a big improvement over Fedora, hopefully it will be when it is installed too.

I dont really have any important info on the system, so im not to worried about that, just basically getting my Linksys PCMCIA card to work, as i was not able to get it to work under Fedora.

Anyways do you see any forseeable problem switching from Fedora to Ubuntu?
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post #2 of 15
1/10/07 at 6:29pm
all signs point to yes. ubuntu has much better hardware recognition and thanks to Automatix you can get all your extra pgorams/plugins and media codecs installed in a few simple clicks...so you'll like it. the livecd experience carries over 100% to the hdd install...there will (...at least shouldnt be) any hidden surprises waiting for you on first boot.
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post #3 of 15
1/10/07 at 10:07pm
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Originally Posted by abf
all signs point to yes. ubuntu has much better hardware recognition and thanks to Automatix you can get all your extra pgorams/plugins and media codecs installed in a few simple clicks...so you'll like it. the livecd experience carries over 100% to the hdd install...there will (...at least shouldnt be) any hidden surprises waiting for you on first boot.

awsome, thank you very much im really excited to see how it turns out on my machine.
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post #4 of 15
1/31/07 at 9:36pm
I can personally highly recommend Ubuntu. I have used RedHat from version 6 all the way up to Fedora 5 and I have loved Ubuntu and its variations. The apt package management and the automatix software that you can use with Ubuntu make life as an expirienced Linux user, and a n00b, easy and fun at times too (in my opinion at least).
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post #5 of 15
2/1/07 at 12:17am
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im really enjoying using Ubuntu on my laptop (my main computer now). The ONLY time i find myself booting up windows is to take notes in class in MS OneNote, but thats it.

Also Ubuntu seems to work A LOT better with my campus's wireless network than the actual intel windows drivers... go figure. I get no more connection drops or unable to connect messages.

I hope Wine one day will be able to install MS Office 2k3 all the way.
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post #6 of 15
2/1/07 at 1:12am
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im really enjoying using Ubuntu on my laptop (my main computer now). The ONLY time i find myself booting up windows is to take notes in class in MS OneNote, but thats it.

Also Ubuntu seems to work A LOT better with my campus's wireless network than the actual intel windows drivers... go figure. I get no more connection drops or unable to connect messages.

I hope Wine one day will be able to install MS Office 2k3 all the way.

Get QEMU with the KQemu accelerator in the meantime to prevent you from having to dual boot, or better yet check some of the open source alternatives to said programs as for many people they are perfectly useable(The differences in Open Office and MS Office for example probably 70 percent of users(Pulled out of my arse) that just use it to type up papers etc, won't even notice.

Seablade
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post #7 of 15
2/1/07 at 6:23pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
Get QEMU with the KQemu accelerator in the meantime to prevent you from having to dual boot, or better yet check some of the open source alternatives to said programs as for many people they are perfectly useable(The differences in Open Office and MS Office for example probably 70 percent of users(Pulled out of my arse) that just use it to type up papers etc, won't even notice.

Seablade


im sorry im still a noob, but what is QEMU? It seems to be to be (from my limited reading of the site) an emulator. Im assuming if i use this i could just emulate a windows environment to get OneNote working?

Am i on target at all?
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post #8 of 15
2/1/07 at 6:42pm
qemu is an open source VM client. kqemu is the closed source (but freeware) accelarator module for it. should work about on par with VMware.... my guess is that he suggested qemu with the assumption you don't have a legal copy of vmware for linux around.
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post #9 of 15
2/1/07 at 6:43pm
Well close but not quite. QEMU is a hardware emulation, meaning it will emulate another computer in your computer, so you can install Windows on that emulated machine. Will it be exceedingly fast? Nope. Probably fast enough for what you need? Yep, since all you have mentioned are office apps.

Seablade
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post #10 of 15
2/1/07 at 11:08pm
VMWare server and viewer are both free and EXTREMELY polished at this point. I run win98 in it for some apps and it runs really fast (much faster than 2000 or XP).
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post #11 of 15
2/2/07 at 1:07am
vmware is awesome! I like it way more than M$ Virtual Server and Virtual PC. vmware supports usb devices and it runs excellent! Virtual machines are a must have for anyone interested in "trying before you buy".
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post #12 of 15
2/2/07 at 11:55am
Yea VMWare server always seems a bit of an overkill for this type of project though.

Seablade
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post #13 of 15
2/2/07 at 7:44pm
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Yea VMWare server always seems a bit of an overkill for this type of project though.

Seablade
I disagree. I'd install vmware server and buld my virtual windows install. If that was all I needed I'd go an install vmware viewer over it (installing viewer removes server for some reason) and have a much more light weight solution.

You can then create a launch icon that will launch the vm directly. The current version of viewer is awesome. I have mine set so that windowed the system runs at 1152x864 and runs at 1920x1200 full screen. Works on the fly.
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post #14 of 15
2/3/07 at 1:26pm
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well honestly guys, i dont have enough HDD space to install windows again.... i only have a 40 gig hdd (it was the cheapest when i purchased my laptop originally) so i have Win XP Pro, plus full version of MS office, plus all my digital 5mp photos and SFC3 plus many many mods, so that partition only has 4 gigs free, and my linux partition only as 2 gigs free... ahha i need to get a new HDD! lol.

Hey... can i mount and install it on a USB thumb drive? And just run it off of that? I could get a 4 gig thumb drive and do that....humm.........
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post #15 of 15
2/3/07 at 2:13pm
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Hey... can i mount and install it on a USB thumb drive? And just run it off of that? I could get a 4 gig thumb drive and do that....humm.........
A VM with windows? Almost certainly as it is just a file to the filesystem in most cases(FUSE excluded) Now would you WANT to do that is a better question. Doing something like that will probably result in a LOT of read/writes to that drives, and flash has a limited life cycle. It may not be the best idea, but as long as you were aware eventually you would have to replace the drive, go right ahead. Seablade
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