pfft, most people move to SuSE because of Yast! It supports the same hardware Ubuntu does, just it doesn't come packed with the drivers you might need. It offers grub and lilo for boot loaders out of the box, Ubuntu offers grub also, so it was obviously a configuration error, not SuSE's fault. I'm not here to rage a distro war, but I have openSuSE running fine, on pretty new hardware, and triple-booting.
How can I set up so? I like to be able to use both vista and ubuntu.Originally posted by zacs7
I pick which one I want to boot (ie when I turn my PC on) using a boot-loader)
During the install of a distro, you can set up partitioning and choose to use a bootloader. Ubuntu does this (almost) automatically (if you choose the right option). Using SuSE you might get in trouble.
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Ok, let me try that now...Originally Posted by Ideswa
During the install of a distro, you can set up partitioning and choose to use a bootloader.
No, SuSE also does it automatically, and it also mounts your NTFS partitions for you (using the kernel NTFS module (not NTFS-3G (ie no write support)).
Install Windows first, then install Ubuntu (*sigh*) and it *should* set up the boot loader for you, (grub probably), else use the grub shell to install it yourself.
I hated how the ubuntu root works and gnome seems to have broke 3 days after I installed it. I like using MEPIS.
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How do I get rid of the boot loader for Kubuntu. I want to install one on my windows disk but if I did it would just load the boot loader for the disk I have kubuntu on afterwards.
Implicitly you did, since you recommended against it pertaining to the question "which OS is more suitable for programming?". It turns out that your recommendation was due to looking at things from the point of view of learning how Linux works, and while I agree with that assessment, I disagree with the assessment that Ubuntu is not "a real distro" and thus is not suitable to use for programming.Never said it was
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
Unless you're using Vista. I've had a lot of trouble getting SuSE and Vista to live together. Took me forever to get the partitioning right in the SuSE install for it to even recognize Vista, and then Vista kept stealing the bootloader, and when trying to fix it with the SuSE installer, it wouldn't recogize Vista anymore (or even install the bootloader).
At least that was my experience. The same setup worked just fine when I was using XP.
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My copy of MEPIS (2004, on a CD, not a DVD) is not very extensive. Because it had to fit on a CD, they cut out GDB, info, many man pages, and all sorts of useful stuff. If you use it, you'll have to do a lot of downloading.
I dual-boot myself, and I find that it works very well. The only annoyance is that Windows cannot read the Linux partition, so if you need to access a Linux file in Windows, you have to reboot. Linux can read the Windows partition in my case, but the Windows partition is FAT32, not NTFS. FAT is supposed to be read-writable, but Windows doesn't like it if I create directories.
Emlating an OS is probably a bad idea unless it's a really old OS, in which case it would run faster than normal instead of slower. Emulating Mac OS 7 is fun.
There's no reason you can't do all three -- I do.[edit] "All three" being multi-boot, live CD, and emulating. [/edit]
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Not even in batman camp universe will emulating anything be faster than running it in hardware, sorry to call you on this one dwks, but you are wrong. Perhaps you mean emulating it on a quad-core 3.2 GHz is faster than running it natively on its original target system.
Emlating an OS is probably a bad idea unless it's a really old OS, in which case it would run faster than normal instead of slower. Emulating Mac OS 7 is fun.
Furthermore, while listing the "real distros" you left out Slackware. . . Why do people always do this? ::Sighs heavily::
Fear not, I'm a dedicated Slackware user. I even payed for the nice 6 disc set. I have it running on three computers in very different roles. Easily the most versatile OS I've ever used.
There is no greater sign that a computing technology is worthless than the association of the word "solution" with it.
Let me elaborate. Say you had an old OS which ordinarily ran on 486es. If you emulate that on a "quad-core 3.2 GHz" processor, it's going to seem faster than it would have on its native platform, a 486, no matter how slow the emulator is.
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VMware emulates a new OS using pure software (it uses an instruction re-writing translation mechanism to make things 'safe,') and while it's slower, it is not crippled by any means.
How do I know? Because I use it and run 2 OS's in it at just about all times. And I have almost not complaints as to speed. I have 1gb of RAM with a p4 processor, and I run both Linux and OpenBSD pretty much at all times. Normally I just connect and program though SSH since it's convenient, but I've run them both with GUI's as well, and it's really not that taxing on your computer, nor is it really that slow.
I would highly recommend VMware if you're willing to pay the bucks for it. It's a great piece of software, and yes, while the OS will run slower (I still would not call it 'crippled' however,) it can be pretty convenient to just have it running there for you.
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