[Chester LUG] OT - Linux Mint (or rather dual booting with Linux)
Michael Crilly
mrcrilly at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 23:30:00 UTC 2013
I use Google Apps for my email and calendar. I also use it for contacts. I think it costs me roughly £3/month, which is pennies for the amount of storage you get.
Google Apps for email is on par with Exchange in my opinion.
- MTC
On 24 Feb 2013, at 10:50, Sebastian Arcus <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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