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Back to Linux I go!
« on: September 27, 2007, 01:53:16 pm »
I did some PartitionMagic magic on my desktop and it's now dualbooting XP Pro, and less suckingly, Slackware 12. Installing Mono and Gnome right now.
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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2007, 01:59:02 pm »
Quote from: Joe[x86] on September 27, 2007, 01:53:16 pm
I did some PartitionMagic magic on my desktop
You are a brave soul.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2007, 04:42:15 pm »
Using ReiserFS?

It's very fast :)
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2007, 04:50:54 pm »
Quote from: Camel on September 27, 2007, 04:42:15 pm
Using ReiserFS?

It's very fast :)
And it was made by a murderer. How cool is that?
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2007, 05:29:48 pm »
Quote from: Hitmen on September 27, 2007, 01:59:02 pm
Quote from: Joe[x86] on September 27, 2007, 01:53:16 pm
I did some PartitionMagic magic on my desktop

You are a brave soul.

I'm a brave soul because I initially tried on my school laptop! It caught some kind of failure and I remembered that when I push issues, I kill things. Keke.

Quote from: Camel on September 27, 2007, 04:42:15 pm
Using ReiserFS?

It's very fast :)

Actually I'm oldschooling the Ext3 due to force of "I've used it before". What advantages does ReiserFS have?
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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

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You might be right about that, Joe.

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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2007, 05:57:45 pm »
It's obscenely fast. Faster than any other filesystem I know of, by a wide margin.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2007, 06:03:26 pm »
What's it attributed to, though? Be a salesman!
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I'd personally do as Joe suggests

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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2007, 06:28:08 pm »
Good call, I made the transition back myself, after mucking around with Gentoo I decided to go with Arch. My / is ext3 but /home is reiserfs. I forget what (who?) convinced me to do that though. Beryl is fun stuff :D!
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2007, 06:30:48 pm »
@Joe: Why? It doesn't really matter to me whether or not you use it. At one point, I would have been able to explain why it's faster off the top of my head, but I've forgotten, and it'd be just as much work for you to look it up as me.

@Ergot: I just go ahead and make the whole deal reiserfs unless I'm building a server where there's some benefit to splitting the drive up. Also, Gentoo FTW! What USE flags do you use? ^_^
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2007, 06:43:41 pm »
The computer I'm posting from is a 375mhz PII with 256mb's of ram, a 10GB HD, and a (Overkill! But it was just collecting dust) 128mb AGP graphics card.

Both filesystems (/, /home) are using ReiserFS, and I've knoticed a 5-10% speed increase in loading some things.

Debian + gnome ftw. KDE was not default installed on the desktop enviorment choice. =(
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2007, 06:54:01 pm »
Debian was cool before Gentoo existed.

You should switch.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2007, 07:53:27 pm »
Quote from: Camel on September 27, 2007, 06:54:01 pm
Debian was cool before Gentoo existed.

You should switch.

Slackware was cool before Debian existed. Probably.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2007, 08:21:19 pm »
Quote from: Camel on September 27, 2007, 06:30:48 pm
Also, Gentoo FTW! What USE flags do you use? ^_^
One of the reasons I switched to Arch...
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2007, 08:27:26 pm »
Quote from: Camel on September 27, 2007, 06:54:01 pm
Debian was cool before Gentoo existed.

You should switch.
Yes, but I actually know how to use Debian. Sure, Gentoo may be more powerful and flexible some ways, but I would not know how the system sets itself up to work and stuff. And apt-get is my best friend, every time I use another version of Linux, (Excluding some like Ubuntu) I get lost without it.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2007, 08:40:53 pm »
Gentoo's emerge is based off of apt-get; the difference is that it compiles everything from source (except a very, very limited number of packages that give the option of binaries, such as firefox, which takes days to compile).

The first time through installing Gentoo is a bit of work, but you'll quickly get the hang of it.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2007, 08:46:04 pm »
Quote from: Camel on September 27, 2007, 08:40:53 pm
Gentoo's emerge is based off of apt-get; the difference is that it compiles everything from source (except a very, very limited number of packages that give the option of binaries, such as firefox, which takes days to compile).

The first time through installing Gentoo is a bit of work, but you'll quickly get the hang of it.
Everything takes bloody ages to compile >:( ! (Yea, I compiled Firefox twice before I found the binary package).
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And yes, male both ends.  There are a couple lesbians that need a two-ended dildo...My router just refuses to wear a strap-on.
(05:55:03) JoE ThE oDD: omfg good job i got a boner thinkin bout them chinese bitches
(17:54:15) Sidoh: I love cosmetology

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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2007, 08:54:50 pm »
Patience, Ergot. Patience.

[edit] Ever done a stage 3 on 1? Compile GCC4 with GCC3. Compile GCC4 with GCC4. Compile the system toolchain. Compile world. Took 4 days of CPU time on my macbook (2.0GHz Core Duo)
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2007, 08:59:49 pm »
Quote from: Camel on September 27, 2007, 08:54:50 pm
Patience, Ergot. Patience.

[edit] Ever done a stage 3 on 1? Compile GCC4 with GCC3. Compile GCC4 with GCC4. Compile the system toolchain. Compile world. Took 4 days of CPU time on my macbook (2.0GHz Core Duo)
No, and I hope I never have to. What kind of third-world distro are you running again :P? Not saying Gentoo is bad, it's just not for everyone.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2007, 09:48:10 pm »
When I used NetBSD, I had to compile everything with pkgsrc... ugh, firefox took 2 days even with distcc...

I generally like binary distributions, source ones are nice, but binary ones are for me.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2007, 10:40:46 pm »
Gentoo is nice if you're doing something that benefits from efficiency. I use it for all of my servers. For the average user's home PC, that isn't it.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2007, 05:35:41 am »
I'm so sorry, if you need to talk I'm here.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2007, 09:04:31 am »
Quote from: Warrior[x86] on September 28, 2007, 05:35:41 am
I'm so sorry, if you need to talk I'm here.

Send me an Xbox and I might come back.
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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2007, 04:08:16 pm »
Quote from: Warrior[x86] on September 28, 2007, 05:35:41 am
I'm so sorry, if you need to talk I'm here.
How do I get Halo 2 to run on XP?
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Quote from: Newby on February 26, 2006, 12:16:58 am
Who gives a damn? I fuck sheep all the time.
Quote from: rabbit on December 11, 2005, 01:05:35 pm
And yes, male both ends.  There are a couple lesbians that need a two-ended dildo...My router just refuses to wear a strap-on.
(05:55:03) JoE ThE oDD: omfg good job i got a boner thinkin bout them chinese bitches
(17:54:15) Sidoh: I love cosmetology

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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2007, 07:55:28 pm »
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