[Chester LUG] OT - Linux Mint (or rather dual booting with Linux)
Sebastian Arcus
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Sun Feb 24 10:50:38 UTC 2013
Sorry for the stuff below. Slightly OT I'm afraid.
On 22/02/13 17:57, Roger Gibson wrote:
> I dual boot Windoze 7 with Ubuntu (updated through many versions)and
> have no problems with rwx access to Windoze partitions (same on my
> desktop, laptop and notebook).
>
> 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')
That's an interesting turn of phrase. Was that really one of the MS
support people - or a third party supporting MS products? Just curious,
as I might not like MS stuff myself - but even I don't have such a low
opinion of their software.
I can access Windoze partitions
> directly with no problems.
>
> 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. The gmail IMAPing
> ensures I have transparent up to date total access to several years
> email history, address books etc on my NEXUS.
What are you using to keep the TB contacts in sync with Google's end? Is
it the "Google Contacts" add-on? If yes, how reliable do you find it?
I've been trying various contacts and calendar sync options over the
years with various back-ends - and I find it on larger number of items
(300-400 contacts, or over 2000 appointments) pretty much every system
starts to do weird things after few months - either breaking the sync or
randomly duplicating items.
Thanks,
Sebastian
>
> Roger.
>
> On 22/02/13 16:35, J Aguado wrote:
>> 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.
>> At the moment only Fedora18 was able to recognise the (windows)
>> partitions on my SSD drive and not complain about it.
>> I did not find many issues with it, albeit having read all the reviews.
>> Unfortunately, the fact that installing NVIDIA drivers on Fedora is a
>> MAJOR pain is making me try Mint.
>>
>> Ubuntu's installer was not able recognise the partitions on my disk,
>> so I do not have high hopes and see myself tweaking Fedora.
>> 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 ;)
>>
>> J.
>>
>>
>> 2013/2/22 Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com
>> <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>>
>>
>> You could always install it in Virtualbox and see how you like it,
>> nothing lost if you don't. Just delete it!
>>
>>
>> On 22 February 2013 16:23, Roger Gibson <rcgibson at talktalk.net
>> <mailto:rcgibson at talktalk.net>> wrote:
>>
>> And I was just going to give Mint a try. I'll wait for an
>> 'All Clear'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. Roger.
>>
>> On 22/02/2013 15:54, Les Pritchard wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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...
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
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