Zaniax

Thanks for your detailed post, Jogga

Many years ago I've used Xenix at command line level.

I haven't yet jumped the Linux wagon but I've been tempted a couple of times.

I like your obvious enthusiasm

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Originally Posted by Zaniax

Thanks for your detailed post, Jogga Many years ago I've used Xenix at command line level. I haven't yet jumped the Linux wagon but I've been tempted a couple of times. I like your obvious enthusiasm . Posted via Mobile Device

Well, there's nothing to stop you loading it as a dual boot with Windows: that way you get to see the best of both worlds.

Zaniax

Originally Posted by Jogga

Well, there's nothing to stop you loading it as a dual boot with Windows: that way you get to see the best of both worlds.

Once I had the best of the two worlds:
A system called MKS Unix.

It ran under DOS (!) but gave access to all the nice tools/utilities of unix like AWK, EGREP, TEE, SPLIT, YACC, SH and many more.

But as I said it's many years ago

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Originally Posted by Jogga

Well, there's nothing to stop you loading it as a dual boot with Windows: that way you get to see the best of both worlds.

Correct. I have done this for some time with generally satisfactory results. It's very handy at work where things are decidedly Microsoft/Exchange-centric.

Moreover, the latest version of Ubuntu 9.10 appears to properly recognize bootable recovery partitions on my netbook and laptop. For example, I've installed the Netbook 9.10 'Remix' version of Ubuntu on my Samsung NC10 netbook. This unit had 3 partitions to begin with, the Recovery Partition, the bootable XP OS partition (C:), and a largely blank NTFS partition (D:).
In the past, many linux distros would during installation rewrite the MBR and "break" access to the Windows Recovery partition. The slightly older Ubuntu 8.04 did this on my Dell XPS Studio 16 laptop, so while I could dual boot between Ubuntu and Vista without any difficulty, the "hidden" F11 recovery partition was inaccessible. It wasn't removed, merely the ability to directly access it had been removed. I suppose I could have added a chainload +1 reference to the partition manually from within Ubuntu, but this might be a tad advanced for casual users.

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Jogga

As an update, Mrs Jogga has just joined the Linux community with a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.10 :approve:

Zaniax

Originally Posted by Jogga

As an update, Mrs Jogga has just joined the Linux community with a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.10 :approve:

... and I'm posting this one from Ubuntu 9.10 live-CD


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Originally Posted by Zaniax

... and I'm posting this one from Ubuntu 9.10 live-CD .

to Ubuntu

breley

Give it a good spin, Zaniax. I think you'll find linux has matured very nicely.

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Originally Posted by Zaniax

Once I had the best of the two worlds: A system called MKS Unix. It ran under DOS (!) but gave access to all the nice tools/utilities of unix like AWK, EGREP, TEE, SPLIT, YACC, SH and many more. But as I said it's many years ago . Posted via Mobile Device

Cygwin or perhaps coLinux (I've read good things about the latter).

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I've used Cygwin in the past, primarily for its SSH capabilities while running a Win 2000 Server box at home. I've not heard of coLinux, but I'm going to give it a try on my i7 box at work.

I've been attempting to get the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 9.10 on my primary laptop at home but have had problems during installation, which is irritating me as I wanted to test Ubuntu's backup capabilities with my external drive. Odd thing is that Ubuntu 8.04 installed just fine, except it wiped out the recovery bootloader for Vista. I'm going to download another ISO at work, where I also do some occasional linux testing and check the MD5 sig to ensure the ISO's integrity.

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