XP to Ubuntu
Windows XP
I reduced the c:/ drive to 20Gb, and defragmented it. Visio and ms project are a part of life, so I'll need the windows partition for dual booting. Eventually I'll switch to a VMWare image, but a dual boot is the path of least resistance for now. I stripped the e:/ drive. Backing up was as follows:
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Kubuntu
I have traditionally liked KDE more than Gnome. And blue is a nice color. Install Kubuntu via the live CD.
I set things up like this:
hda2/ - 35 Gb
hda5/ 10Gb '/'
hda6/ 20Gb '/home'
hda7/ 2 Gb swap
hda8/ 3 GB fat32 '/media/osshare
Installed. It Just Works (tm). Brilliant.
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The Summit starts quite promising, the motto for Feisty, which we'll be sketching this week is "make things just work", and that includes some polishing of the multimedia, such as getting ALSA to work nicely, codec installation, and more. People from a lot of different groups came here...
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