Ubuntu

[Papito]

I wish know if any of you recommend me Ubuntu or what?

I want learn more about it, what do you think?

[Chuckun]

Ubuntu, especially since version 9, is an excellent OS.. I would recommend it

[Papito]

Im downloading 10.10 desktop version

[Crasher]

I heard about it, it seems okay.

[Dworkin]

Ubuntu is a great Linux OS.... Just too much trouble for me to deal with on a daily basis. I install it and get rid of it at least once a year.

[Chuckun]

Latest I've used is 10.04 but 10.10 looks great

 

As far as getting rid of it.. It's the other way for me, I tend to give each new windows release a go, then get rid of it within 6 months, and go for linux (ubuntu generally) for ease of life lol.

[PHANTASM]

It is great if you have a Windows computer full of clutter that slows down your games. If you have a big hard drive full of files, Punkbuster wastes a lot of time scanning files and all your running programs. Also, a lot of ordinary programs don't get along with PB. So running Ubuntu on a separate partition can be very useful in that situation.

 

We have two tutorials about installing Ubuntu and ET. Look in the tutorials section.

[Papito]

I got the tutorial, but is really necessary have a disk partition? I read about it and say something about ext2 ext3 etc, do you recommend me create a partition, my HD 500 Gb

[SunLight]

I got the tutorial, but is really necessary have a disk partition? I read about it and say something about ext2 ext3 etc, do you recommend me create a partition, my HD 500 Gb

The best option would be creating a partition, anyway it doesn't need to be at the start of your hd, that's what I would do, but afaik with wubi you can try ubuntu without partitioning, so if you are not confident with partitioning, boot managers and the like it should be easier. (I never tried it though!)

Or you can create a partition at the end of your hd, so you (hopefully) won't have to move (much) data, then if you like ubuntu you can always clone it with clonezilla or similar software, and recover it to another partition (then you need to edit a couple of files).

 

As regards ubuntu, I've tried it (version 10.04) first when I decided to switch to linux, but I had freezes and kernel panics, I was never able to discover the reason, then I decided to try fedora and I am using that distro without problems since then. But I liked ubuntu too.

Enemy territory runs fine, I don't get such miracolous fps improvements though. I get the same fps I get on windows xp. But they are more stable, on etpro with cg_lagometer 2 I can show a fps graph and it's perfectly flat on linux, while on win I have spikes. And muliple cpu cores are handled better on linux. I am using the 32 bit os, since I had trouble with et installation on 64 bits (and it wouldn't have been faster) so I decided to use 32. With ubuntu it would have been easier to install et on 64 bits, probably. For example installing ati drivers was ultraeasy on ubuntu, on fedora I use the file downloaded from ati website, but then every kernel upgrade (and on fedora there are lots) I have to recreate some things.

 

So, in the end it all depends on the reason why you want to use linux, if it's just to play et then you won't have much improvements over windows, if you do it because you like the os it's another matter...

Now everytime I use windows I get pissed because the command console sucks, I need to update the antivirus, the harddrive works a lot even if it's all defragmented etc. I load windows only for slac (they will never make a linux version imho) and for some other things, on linux I use wine for some windows software which runs fine enough.

[rolf]

What do you want to do with it? "Learning it" is not a goal, or at least not one you will succeed in if you don't use Ubuntu.

 

 

I use Ubuntu mainly as development pc (it's my second pc). Since Visual Studio is a little bit too complex sometimes, and all my programming exercises are given as Linux sourcecode, why not run Linux?

 

I have now 5.6GB usage, but that is pretty much a base install. If you many programs, or use it to store 9001 movies, anything above 50GB should be sufficient. If you reach the 50GB, you'll use Linux probably often enough. However, if you really can mis 250GB, that's of course fine too

 

For Linux, you _need_ to chose a swap partition, 2~6GB is most of the times enough, but other than Windows, you can't use swap for anything else (where in Windows it's just available harddisk space).

 

 

Third, the real power of Linux does not lay in the fancy desktop environment (I actually hate it), but in the power of the console/terminal. Try to understand how that works, instead of searching in the menu how everything works

[Antichrist]

I installed 10.10 on my media PC... I liked the OS, the appearance, how smooth the PC ran etc..

 

But I couldn't manually locate, and install drivers for my sound card, video card, etc..... I have NO IDEA how to do this... so I gave up and installed Vista :-/

[JoeDirt]

Only linux os worth installing is Backtrack, everything else is just garbage, btw I dont have it installed I just run the livecd.

[Chuckun]

Only linux os worth installing is Backtrack, everything else is just garbage, btw I dont have it installed I just run the livecd.

 

Presumably you use that solely for security testing things though, right?

[JoeDirt]

Presumably you use that solely for security testing things though, right?

Among other things, I had it installed on one of my laptops and had ET running on it as well, but I gave the laptop away to my kids.

[Papito]

So?

Joe even like Linux, Rolf recommend me Linux, that's what i saw before with my friends some ones like others not so much, but i wanna learn the programming side, new codes or just update my knowledge, since 2 years than i don't practice any kind of language, i use to programm some Delphi, C, C++, c#, php and java. So what could be the best option?