[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu and Archlinux Dual boot

[Ritesh Sinha]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:44 AM, NARENDRA DIWATE
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> mallik.v.arjun
>>>Infact, Upgrades have lot of cons than pros mainly waste of time. (Purely
>>> my opinion)
> Yes, If you upgrade to Bleeding edge/Testing repos. I dont. I upgrade to
> stable apps only.
Arch packages update quite frequently. It will crunch quite a bit of
bandwidth, would recommend powerpill for faster downloads.

>
>>>I dont have any experience in Arch, I would appreciate to know your
>>> experience with Arch till now.
> Certainly Will, When I do install Arch.
>
>>>Install XP first --> No grub
>>>Install Arch next --> since it has a rolling release so no change to grub
>>>Install Ubuntu next --> Actually Ubuntu detects more OS's on HDD than any
>>>other which I have tried. So I suggest Ubuntu to be last in the list...
> As mentioned in my OP, WinXP will not be installed. It will be a Arch +
> Ubuntu Dual boot.
>
> csshyamsundar
>
>>Arch, Gentoo are distributions which are suitable for people who like to be
>> bleeding edge. The PRO's are usually, optimized >binaries and you are not
>> dumped with a vendor's choice, and you can install what you exactly want.
>> The CON's are - If something >breaks, you'd be spending time fixing it and
>> you would not have much of support like Debian/Ubuntu. Gentoo is superior
>> when it >comes to performance. IMHO years of experience does matter to an
>> extent, and since I dont know what you did these 5 years, I >cant comment
>> much.
>>My opinion, if you want performance, bleeding edge stuff, install
>> Gentoo/Funtoo/Arch. If you want stability, install Debian/Mint ( >an ubuntu
>> variant, but more stable ).

Gentoo is a pain to maintain, and I would recommend it only if you
have a use case that justifies it. I was an avid Gentoo user in
college for three years, where I had the time to recompile the kernel
and other packages to enable/disable features. This is of course
solved if you use the genkernel script to generate the kernel in
gentoo, but that for me that would defeat the purpose of using of a
source only distro which allows customization and tweaks.

As far as support goes, the gentoo wiki used to be quite well
maintained. Not sure if that's the case these days.
>
> Gentoo, I have no Exp at all. And I am not a IT/Tech guy. Just a bit
> Interested in computers to the extent that i can get my things done and
> understand how things inside work. Actually got sick of Viruses and crashes
> in WinXP, so moved to Linux.

Again, don't bother with Gentoo if you don't have time to invest. Not
saying it's a bad distro, in fact it is quite the opposite if you have
the time and energy to set it up to your liking.
>
>>IMHO - If you are not playing games in XP., install linux alone and then
>> install Virtual Box or VMWare player and then install XP >inside that.
>
> No, WinXP will NOT be installed at all.
>
> Regards
>
> Narendra Diwate
>
>
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