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Apr 6, 2008 11:39PM

 Fusion is the only thing I've seen that pulls off cooler effects than Mac OS X.

You should try OpenBSD. It's unsuitable for a desktop, though, in my opinion, due to its lack of nvidia drivers. OpenBSD developers refuse to support hardware that doesn't have open specs (in the name of security).

It's quite possibly the scariest OS I've ever used, and it's probably the most secure.
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Apr 29, 2008 12:28AM

 I'm currently dual booting Vista 32bit (came with the computer and Dell does not offer a 64bit version, yet) and Ubuntu 8.04 64bit. Currently have my harddrive partitioned as: 50gig for Vista, 50gig for Ubuntu, 150gig free space + other hdd's. I generally use Ubuntu more than Vista but go back and fourth. I'm starting to like Ubuntu more because of the software being free. I know I can get the Mexican versions of Windows software but I've seen the light!

I know Ubuntu gets bad rep from hardcore linux users but hell, least it is getting people to switch.
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May 20, 2008 03:17PM

 I really don't see why Ubuntu has a bad rep. Where do you hear that?



Anyway, I have the same dual-boot setup as you! Except....my HDD sucks so only 5GB for Ubuntu (it was for testing purpose at the time and now I wished I expanded it) and the rest for Vista.


Ubuntu surprisingly does well with 5GB. You really can do a lot with just a measly 5GB unlike Vista. A game ported to Windows which is around 250MB can be just a little over 4MB on Linux without anything ripped.
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May 22, 2008 01:46PM

 Ubuntu is generally hated around serious Linux communities.

They contribute almost nothing back upstream and take advantage of the hard work of the Debian project.

Ubuntu is considered to be the Windows of the Linux world.

I don't think gparted can safely expand/shrink Vista NTFS partitions yet, so I'd avoid doing it. :P
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May 23, 2008 05:27PM

 Yea I've heard that Ubuntu is blamed for just as Windows to hide the real things behind fancy dialogue windows and such.
But it's good because it brings Linux to a wider audience.


Now I've heard about a distribution which only purpose is ta manange hard drives, obviously it's a live CD dist.
If anyone got a bad need of the dist just chat me up on my wall and I'll check trough some "Dator Magazine".


I'm going to have to fire up Fedora 9 now when it's out.
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May 27, 2008 10:44AM

 Got Fedora 9 installed it showed up that there wasn't any working nVidia drivers for it yet. Screw you big companies for not giving out your documentation!
So I got Fedora 8 installed instead and I'm planning on ditching Windows for a while. Because I realized that I'm able to do everything I do in windows in an environment that I enjoy so much more.

Tough I heard in the wegame channel that someone here at wegame got working drivers on FC9.

Installing the drivers on FC8 was very easie.
Just download the drivers.
Then open the console and:

[code]
yum install kernel-devel
yum install gcc
sh (nvidia drivers name)
[/code]

And boom you are fit for fighting
Everything is so easy when you are simply able to do what you want in the console.
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Jun 11, 2008 01:55AM

 All I've ever done to install nvidia drivers is:

1. Go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
2. Find drivers for your platform and wget them (AMD64 in my case, since I'm on a Core 2 Duo and I run 64-bit Debian)
3. sh <filename>.run
4. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (to restart X11)

Takes less than a minute.

On Ubuntu, you can install them without actually hitting a terminal once, apparently.
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Jun 11, 2008 07:35AM

 Well on my Fedora platform it has always been asking for kernel source code and the gcc package.
But that's very easy to get my hands on.
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