[LBo] Distros...

[Billy Pollifrone]

Allen wrote:
> Hi gang,
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> The questions I have are:
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>     1) Xubuntu says a swap of 1 gig, but the old formula I
>        remember is 2x installed memory. I have a gig of
>        memory so should I really use a 2 gig swap?

It's an 'old' formula because it's just that. It works good for 256MB or
so, but with 1GB or more of memory, it all depends on what you are
doing. I've seen a Kubuntu installation run fine in a laptop with 512MB
and no swap at all. Over time, you'll figure out the amount of memory
you usually will be using.

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>     2) Xubuntu says only other partition needed one with a
>        mount point of /. Is this really the way to go or
>        should I have a partition for /boot as well? If so
>        how big, 128 meg?

That's correct. All that is needed is / partition. I usually add a /home
as well, and /data or something is not a bad idea. /boot is not needed
as most laptop system bios' will not have the 1024 cylinder issue that
required a very small bootable partition.

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>     3) Back to the distro question. I do a lot of information
>        test logs. Does this make sense? If so is Xubuntu a
>        good choice? Others I've looked at include PCLinuxOS,
>        rPath, gNewSense, BLAG and DSL. I've even thought of
>        going with PC-BSD. My real goal is stability with a
>        minimum of fuss and constant fiddling with updates.
>        Suggestions?

Distros with package management such as Debian or Ubuntu or derivatives
make updates almost a non-issue. The former uses older packages for
stability, and the latter has a 6 month cycle for new releases.

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Billy Pollifrone
billy @ silverbaseball . com

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