| Art Alexion on 25 May 2007 17:47:53 -0000 |
|
On Friday 25 May 2007 09:00, Doug Crompton wrote: > I mean who wants to deal > with multiple partitions, of different filessystems That's not really necessary for Linux. I only use ext3 fs, and used ext2 before that. As for partitions, you can put everything but /swap on the same partition. I am not sure that is a good idea if you want to do upgrades or reinstalls, but it works just fine. My understanding is that maximum partition sizes are smaller in windows, necessitating partions on large drives that Linux can handle as a single partition. I think the hardest thing for a new Linux user to understand is permissions. Once that's understood, most of the rest can be easy from a non-administrative user's standpoint. If you read lists, like kubuntu-users, you'll see that lots of Linux users never see a command line nor manually edit a config file. Another problem results more from philosophy that technicality, and that involves stuff like mp3 and wmv not working out of the box with a default install. New users often don't care about nor understand the philosophy. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
pgpm731lgCOlZ.pgp ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
|
|