[ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

[Narendra Diwate]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Easwar Hariharan <meindian523 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Windows XP fits in 5 GB space. Just that it doesn't leave any space
> for anything else to be installed after installing the drivers. ;) (my
> experiment) If you just want an OS, XP is for you,Vista/7 are
> definitely not.If you want a functional system along with the OS in 5
> GB of space, yep, Linux is the way to go.
>

I will certainly not go towards Redmond ever again. Not that XP or Win7 are
bad OS's but I have come to love Linux. Even when i was using XP, i never
had Virus or malware issues. I am a pretty safe and sensible user that way.
The unreliability of XP in case of a power outage or crash (i don't have a
UPS or laptop) was what forced me to Linux.

I was using a lot of free ware / fossware and Portable apps from
portableapps.com, portablefreeware.com and winpenpack. A few days ago had a
look at a W7 system and liked it. However even with very little apps it was
18.7GB. Thats more than many times all my data combined.

Thats also the reason i will not go towards Linux distros that occupy space
of a similar size. Thats where the simple and elegance of Arch, Debian and a
few others like AntiX comes in. Thats also the reason i like to play with
mini distros that fit in under 200MB iso with all desktop apps.

My partitioning is this: 2 Primaries of 7 GB each, swap of 2GB, 2 logicals
of 7 GB each and 3 data partitions of 40GB each for all data. The home for
ubuntu is not separated but resides in the same partition as /. The idea
with having 2 pri + 2 logicals was to experiment with distos. once of them
has ubuntu and one has Slitaz. The other 2 are vacant. Ubuntu will stay for
a while till I get the nerve to move to a Rolling release. Any advice what
should i be trying considering the past few posts that you may have gone
thru. Obviously it should fit in the 7GB.

Regards

Narendra Diwate
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