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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 03:43 AM EDT |
Look at Debian Stable (well since they have almost got Wheezy ready for
release you could try that)
It's a little bit trickier to install on oddball hardware (binary drivers have
to be
fetched in advance) but once you get it installed it updates painlessly for
ever.
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Authored by: ailuromancy on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 05:01 AM EDT |
The short answer is ext3 for home as you require
compatibility with windows,
and ext4 for everything
else.
For more information than you can stand, go to
Wakipedia's
comparison of file systems.
If home is really big, or on a thoroughly
thrashed
SSD, you might prefer ext4 for home and use a separate
vfat partition
to exchange files with windows.
I recommend ext3, ext4 and vfat because
they have
been in use and tested extensively. Btrfs has some
really shiny
features, but I am too cowardly to use it
for anything but experiments.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 05:45 AM EDT |
Partition you harddisk first and make the NTFS partition the first one (hda1).
Then install windows and when done, install anything else.
This method gives the least trouble with bootloaders, which Windows tend to
sidetrack.
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 11:30 AM EDT |
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I'll keep my main home folder on a seperate partition so blowing stuff away
doesn't make me lose my docs
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On my main computer, I keep /home on a separate drive, mounted in a removable
tray. It's hard for an OS install to clobber data it can't even access.
However, as always, it's a good idea to do a backup *BEFORE* you start.
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