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<tt>I dual boot Windoze 7 with Ubuntu (updated through many
versions)</tt><tt> and have no problems with rwx access to Windoze
partitions (same on my desktop, laptop and notebook). </tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>Although I use a separate ntfs partition for my 'data'
files, so as to facilitate reloading/changing loaded OS, (MS
software support recommended to me reloading Windoze every 12
months to remove 'inevitable ongoing corruptions') I can access
Windoze partitions directly with no problems. </tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>Using Thunderbird, even IMAPed to gmail, both Ubuntu and
Windoze 7 happily work with the same profile sub-directory on my
ntfs 'data' partition, ensuring these are up to date (and they run
to about 10GB) whatever OS I am currently using, and can be used
on or off line. I also found SUSE triple booted in worked fine
too.</tt><tt> The gmail IMAPing ensures I have transparent up to
date total access to several years email history, address books
etc on my NEXUS.<br>
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</tt><tt>Roger.</tt><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/02/13 16:35, J Aguado wrote:<br>
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<div>I will been testing Mint tonight actually as I am in
the process of finding the right distro to Dual boot my
Window$8 desktop.<br>
At the moment only Fedora18 was able to recognise the
(windows) partitions on my SSD drive and not complain
about it.<br>
I did not find many issues with it, albeit having read all
the reviews.<br>
Unfortunately, the fact that installing NVIDIA drivers on
Fedora is a MAJOR pain is making me try Mint.<br>
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Ubuntu's installer was not able recognise the partitions on
my disk, so I do not have high hopes and see myself tweaking
Fedora.<br>
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If it works and recognises my hardware I'll let you know if I
find other issues, but I know that there is a huge community
behind Mint ever since Ubuntu started to move to Unity, so I
have high hopes ;)<br>
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always install it in Virtualbox and see how you like it,
nothing lost if you don't. Just delete it!
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tt>And I
was just going to give Mint a try. I'll wait
for an 'All Clear'</tt><tt> before I go down
that path. Have to say that now I've got used
to it, the latest Ubuntu desk top 'straight out
of the box' seems as good as any, but then I
don't push it hard.</tt><tt> Roger. </tt><br>
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<div>Hi all,<br>
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Last night I decided to give
Mint a go on one of my primary
desktop systems. I've used the
Debian edition and previous
Gnome versions in the past, but
with all the the Gnome changes I
have found myself using KDE
more.<br>
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So I grabbed the KDE version of
the latest Mint and installed it
with no problems. All worked
really well and I was pleased with
hardware support etc. The problem
came when I tried to run an
update. Apt-get returned a whole
load of 404s when trying to
update, saying the servers could
not be found.<br>
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A quick look into the sources file
showed me that the repos they had
for the Ubuntu servers all
referenced the code name for the
Mint distro and not the matched
Ubuntu edition! (All these code
names are just annoying in my
opinion). So a quick change of the
name to the correct Ubuntu code name
and all the updates worked
perfectly.<br>
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A quick Google suggests that others
have seen this problem too. I find it
very hard to believe that a distro
could be rolled with such a simple
error. Also being such a trivial
error, that it hasn't been quickly
fixed amazed me. The experience didn't
fill me with confidence about the
distro at all.<br>
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Has anyone else found any other issues
with it? Should I be going back to
Ubuntu after all this time?! Or over to
something like Fedora / Mageia /
Fuduntu...<br>
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