A Microsoft patch meant to fix critical security flaws in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is causing trouble for some users, the company said Friday.
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Member since:2005-07-06
/home on its own partition, or own drive is always the way to go.
also, I said earlier that Mepis would be a better choice than Ubuntu for multimedia codecs out of the box, but one of my tests for any distro has to be this;
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
if it plays them from the browser straight off, then it is a good start.
Member since:Hi,
"1) Go to a dual boot system. You will find yourself using Windows less and less with time, but you'll always have a way back when you need it."
This is the best bit of advice I've seen all week.
I've got several computers, and about a year ago wanted to setup a web server. I put Gentoo and Apache on one of them with the intention of leaving it running in the corner and not really using it for anything else.
Now I only really use the Windows machines for playing games - if they crash or get infected by the plague I can fdisk them and have them back working in an hour without worrying about losing important things.
The only real problem I've had with Gentoo is that it doesn't come with a free UPS (power failures suck).
-Brendan
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Advice:
1) Go to a dual boot system. You will find yourself using Windows less and less with time, but you'll always have a way back when you need it.
2) The best way to do dual boot is by installing a separate hard drive.
3) When you do this, make sure you put /home on its own partition.
4) Look at Suse and Mandriva as well as Ubuntu. And the suggestion to try Mepis, rather than Ubuntu, if you want a Debian based system, is a good one.
I've installed several systems for new linux users, and installed earlier versions of Ubuntu also. Ubuntu may have improved lately, but Suse, Mandrake or Mepis all strike me as better bets for a new linux user. Good luck.