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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.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Back to Linux I go!
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2007, 01:59:02 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 »
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 »
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.

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?
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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« 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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You might be right about that, Joe.


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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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« 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.

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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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« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2007, 07:53:27 pm »
Debian was cool before Gentoo existed.

You should switch.

Slackware was cool before Debian existed. Probably.

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« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2007, 08:21:19 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 »
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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