Re: Goals for the year
From: Ed Hurst (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 04/16/04
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:39:59 -0500
Synchrodude wrote:
> Here I sit a little drunk but I would like to share what my goals are for
> this year.
> May 6th give or take a few days buy Suse 9.1 Then in a few months put
> together a new computer using the AMD 64 bit chip on a Nvidia Nforce 3 chip
> set, haven't decided which one I'm going with yet and I want to experiment
> with Raid. I want to review some other peoples success with this before I
> jump into it, because I plan on making this a server running Samba, Apache
> and running a synchronet BBS system on it also. Yes I know BBS's are of the
> past but it has been one thing that I haven't been able to totally let go
> of. Until then I think I will go crazy and mess up my computer trying
> something differnet. Like I'm going to attempt to install FreeBsd along
> with Suse and win2k. So any info on this I would appriciate. I tried to set
> up a tri boot system already, but it didn't go very good as Mandrake
> overwrote my suse install and I wasn't very happy about that. I think I
> know what I forgot to do with that, and that was I didn't make a new
> partitin for Mandrake and told it to use the existing Linux partition and
> poof my Suse was gone. Oh well that is what I get for just jumping into
> somthing without ready the how-to's :)
> The other idea I had for this one is to add another HD just for another
> Distro or 2 including FreeBSD so I will probably pick up another 40 to 60
> gig HD for this experimentation. But my concerns are will my boot loader be
> affected by doing this or how do I tell it to keep my existing boot loader
> and just add the new distro's to it. Also what should I experiment with I
> like Knoppix and I want to install to HD but don't know how to yet and I
> want to try FreeBSD but have never installed that yet on any system so what
> are some issues that I should expect from that one. Ok i'm done rambleing
> on now please feel free to assist me with my next projects that are about
> ready to drive me crazy or before I do somthing stupid that will result in
> another reinstall of Suse and win2k.
I have a "clueless user guide" for FreeBSD as a desktop OS on my website
-- 7 lessons:
http://webs.tconline.net/softedges/index.html#bsd
FreeBSD, on average, requires less resources to run, and less space on
the drive. The kernel can compile in minutes (7 minutes on my Athlon
1.1/512MB RAM) but it does less in the first place. It's more finicky
about hardware, and is less convenient to use than Linux. X is slightly
more likely to crash than on Linux. You can tell it to install with a
boot from floppy, which I highly recommend for a multi-OS machine.
Knoppix has an installer built in. However, be advised, the last time I
used it, the stupid thing installed everything, including tons of junk
for which I had no need -- touchscreen drivers, braille drivers, etc.
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