Comments on: To-buntu, or not to-buntu. That is the question. http://buffered.io/2006/09/20/to-buntu-or-not-to-buntu-that-is-the-question/ What would OJ do? Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:33:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: bryce http://buffered.io/2006/09/20/to-buntu-or-not-to-buntu-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-41 bryce Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:34:29 +0000 http://buffered.io/2006/09/20/to-buntu-or-not-to-buntu-that-is-the-question/#comment-41 as a guy whose completely convereted (and has used both distros); i have certain issues with the ubuntus, its lack of desire to play mp3's natively primarly. You have to do some apt-get sources hackery to get them to linux to play mp3's. As well as wmv files and dvd's. I'm not a fan of that personally, i like having my computer be "MY" computer. So if a computer is too "weak" to build gentoo within a respectable period of time, it'll get kubuntu or xubuntu, otherwise, its getting gentoo. As a side note, i use Suse 10.1 at work, and it is also a nice distro, but sufferes the same mp3 problem as *ubuntu. And i can also say that qemu is your friend(there is a windows client too for those that wanna try linux w/out killing they're windows setup). If wine can't emulate the program you need, then start up qemu and do what you need. Not the fastest methoed, but its a lot better than dual booting. as a guy whose completely convereted (and has used both distros); i have certain issues with the ubuntus, its lack of desire to play mp3′s natively primarly. You have to do some apt-get sources hackery to get them to linux to play mp3′s. As well as wmv files and dvd’s. I’m not a fan of that personally, i like having my computer be “MY” computer. So if a computer is too “weak” to build gentoo within a respectable period of time, it’ll get kubuntu or xubuntu, otherwise, its getting gentoo.

As a side note, i use Suse 10.1 at work, and it is also a nice distro, but sufferes the same mp3 problem as *ubuntu.

And i can also say that qemu is your friend(there is a windows client too for those that wanna try linux w/out killing they’re windows setup).

If wine can’t emulate the program you need, then start up qemu and do what you need. Not the fastest methoed, but its a lot better than dual booting.

]]> By: OJ http://buffered.io/2006/09/20/to-buntu-or-not-to-buntu-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-40 OJ Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:36:43 +0000 http://buffered.io/2006/09/20/to-buntu-or-not-to-buntu-that-is-the-question/#comment-40 Aye, that was one of the bonuses of dual boots. Like you said, the Linux Live CDs are a winner for that now, but if you have only got one machine you'd better make sure you have that Live CD ready to go <em>before</em> the corruption happens, otherwise you're up s**t creek with a turd for a paddle :) Aye, that was one of the bonuses of dual boots. Like you said, the Linux Live CDs are a winner for that now, but if you have only got one machine you’d better make sure you have that Live CD ready to go before the corruption happens, otherwise you’re up s**t creek with a turd for a paddle :)

]]> By: Keef http://buffered.io/2006/09/20/to-buntu-or-not-to-buntu-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Keef Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:24:21 +0000 http://buffered.io/2006/09/20/to-buntu-or-not-to-buntu-that-is-the-question/#comment-39 On the full OS install vs. virtual machines point, I remember yonks ago having Mandrake installed on a partition was able to use it to fix a corrupted file in the NTFS partition (which then allowed Win2k to boot again). Saved me having to transplant the disk into someone else's PC to run chkdsk. This is one advantage to a full OS install over a virtual machine, though these days you can get bootable Linux distros on CD, so this is a moot point these days. As for which distro is better, I wouldn't mind knowing the answer too as I'm planning on installing and having a play with one again. On the full OS install vs. virtual machines point, I remember yonks ago having Mandrake installed on a partition was able to use it to fix a corrupted file in the NTFS partition (which then allowed Win2k to boot again). Saved me having to transplant the disk into someone else’s PC to run chkdsk.

This is one advantage to a full OS install over a virtual machine, though these days you can get bootable Linux distros on CD, so this is a moot point these days.

As for which distro is better, I wouldn’t mind knowing the answer too as I’m planning on installing and having a play with one again.

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