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What Did You Do First With Linux?

Posted by Soulskill on from the indulged-in-moderately-maniacal-laughter dept.

ruphus13 writes "OStatic has an interesting article on remembering the first time you used Linux. Quoting: 'I'm not sure if the admission that I remember my first Linux installation much more clearly than any date with my first boyfriend or my first date with my husband is a really wise thing to put in writing. I will freely admit it wasn't quite as anxiety-inducing as a date, and the long-term relationship that sprang from it taught me quite a bit about myself, how I learn, and how to passionately load kernel modules at boot. So, what was your first Linux experience?'"

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  1. Re:Ubuntu 8.10 2008 on a PPC, well, a PS3... by DJRumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    A bit off topic, but extremely easy to do on any Mac.

    First things first. Install ReFit to make the OS boot selection easier. Very nice boot manager for OS X.

    Next, you install your Bootcamp, which will partition your OS X HD into two OS partitions (Refit first, OS X, and then Bootcamp partition last). Once completed, go into Disk Utility and shrink your OS X partition by whatever number of GB you want your Linux partition to be (Bootcamp should always have the last partition on your HD. If it isn't last, it doesn't work with the built in tools.

    Install whatever flavor of Linux you like and ensure you install your boot loader on the actual Linux partition and not on any of your other partitions (usually in the 'advanced' setup during the partitioning process in distros I've set up. Check the documentation)

    Rinse and repeat as needed for any number of OS's.

    That's it in a nutshell. VERY easy to do...

  2. Wrote a C Program that allocated a 4MB array by thaig · · Score: 3, Informative

    Couldn't be done on Windows at that time. Was blown away. Never looked back.

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  3. Re:A RedHat 2 Distro back in 95? 96? by Bert64 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't use Ubuntu if you want to configure things yourself... Try LFS (Linux From Scratch)... Even Gentoo is fairly automated these days.

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  4. Re:Rebooted back into windows ... by Bert64 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Same can be said of windows, it's unlikely to support modern network cards out of the box unless you have a special oem version with drivers included... Linux actually stands a better chance of supporting your nic.

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