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Re: [LUG] oss_policy_version2



On 2004.11.16 15:31 kong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello list,

two things:

The revised Govt policy regarding OSS is interesting:
http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/documents/oss_policy_version2.pdf
especially "UK government will seek to avoid lock-in to proprietary
products and services" - that's a big oops then.

and I have a question. Having a computer containing a
replaced-under-guarantee blank 80G SATA drive, I would like to
partition and dual boot the machine for a nice "desktoppy" flavour of
Linux and Windows XP pro. Any advice/suggestions?

Hi,


I would install XP first, as it overwrites the boot record and breaks access to anything else.
I would also give, say 30GB to XP, then have a second partition available to XP but formatted as FAT32, say around 10GB, then use the rest of the disk for linux.
That way, you can share files between XP and linux easily (Linux NTFS writing support is sadly dangerous)
Personally, I would go with Fedora Core 2 as a nice desktop environment. FC3 is out, but early adopters and all that...
I have FC2 running (just about) adequately on an old Pentium II 350Mhz, with 128Mb ram, so its not a power hog.
I also have it running on an AMD Sempron 2500 (around 1.7 Ghz) with 512 RAM and its fun on that one.
I installed Suse 9.1 on the sempron machine and it was lousy, slow, unresponsive, and even the web browser kept hanging. FC2 went on and it flies.
Plus yum is very useful for patches, new software installs etc.
But with a spare partition, you can keep changing distro if you want. Just remember that XP will kill the mbr (as far as linux is concerned) if you reinstall windows anytime.



alan


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