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Back in my "more l33t days" I was a Solaris administrator for the military and played with Knoppix and FreeBSD. Since then I've done some work with Tsulutions using CentOS and ESX (linux variant).

I wouldn't consider myself an advanced unix user. But I do understand quite a few advanced concepts, definitions, histories, and functions of unix in general. Specifically Linux.

My question is: if you're a unix geek (especially someone who uses it a lot or as their main OS) -- what distribution are you using?

Right now I'm leaning towards Fedora 14 64-bit.

I have a 250GB EIDE/PATA drive I plan on using as a dual-boot with WinXP sp3. More than likely I'll end up dividing the hard drive into 3 partitions (one for XP, one for Linux, and one for FAT32 so I can easily move files between the two). I also have a lot of other HDD space (1TB+) but that will be staying NTFS. I'm forcing myself to go to a dual-boot setup so that I can get away from Windows. I'm educated and geek enough to make the switch - so I'm jumping into the fire.

Any intelligent and knowledgeable feedback is welcomed.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I do have a 320GB SATA2 drive that I am using right now as my active OS (WinXP sp3), so I suppose I could technically use this drive as well since Fedora 14 supports SATA drives. I initially planned on using my older PATA drive because I was going to also create boots for Win95, Win98se, and Win2k simply for messing around -- but I've decided to do that in a VM). So if you recommend sticking with SATA2 for performance reasons, please say so.

I installed and fully patched (to sp3) Windows XP on the PATA drive, but I haven't installed any applications.

I wasn't really thinking and ended up having dual Windows boots so this new install has its boot/operating system files on the D: drive. And my original boot drive is my system drive (C:). Not what I was hoping to do. I know it'll function just fine, but I don't want to risk it. So I'm going to reload THIS operating system (C:) and continue to use it as my windows system of choice. Then D: will be for backup and the Fedora 14 distro on that physical hard drive will be for playing around on.

If anyone has any Fedora 14 feedback I'd still like to hear it.

So, to summarize, I'll end up with:

• PATA (NTFS) WinXP = D:\
• PATA (EXT3) Fedora 14 = \
• PATA (FAT32) *10gb Fat32 partition*
• SATA2 (NTFS) WinXP = C:\

You know there are pretty stable NTFS drivers for Linux, right? No need to have a FAT32 partition for sharing data, just stick it on one of the NTFS drives and then both Windows and Linux can use it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Linux

danpaul88 wrote:You know there are pretty stable NTFS drivers for Linux, right? No need to have a FAT32 partition for sharing data, just stick it on one of the NTFS drives and then both Windows and Linux can use it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Linux

I have over a TB of NTFS storage space. I was worried about quick transfers (like for system operations). That's the only reason I created the FAT32 partition. If it's not in use, nothing will be on that partition.

also flood not to clutter your topic but we arent ignoring you some of use (at least dagun and me got lost in the geek speak)


feel free to remove this post to keep the topic uncluttered

It's fine.

Ubuntu is pretty fine and ez to use but that's my comment though and if u using multi os, install windows 1st then install linux there for grub will handle the rest.

ubuntu.com

Also its not hard to transfer files from one os to another, with me always hides the files in one hdd so i usually use external to transfer but im just putting my word out

Last time I installed any flavour of Linux (Ubuntu 8.something I believe) I managed to make it unbootable within 24 hours simply trying to convince the stupid thing to extend the desktop across both of my monitors instead of just mirroring the display on both of them.

In Windows this simple task takes about 5 seconds to accomplish.


And people claim Linux is better... pah.