LINUX for Noobs. Distributions, experiences, help, etc

[factorg]

so the booting up takes much longer I suppose...considering the fact that part of a hard drive has to be formatted and installing linux and all...or is this done once only?

There should be no difference in your boot process. No actual part of the hard drive is actually formatted with a linux filesystem, as i tried to explain above, it uses files which are formatted with the linux filesystem. Windows has no idea that linux is installed on those files, it only see's them as being files. And the boot process of the virtual machine is very quick.

[element86]

so the booting up takes much longer I suppose...considering the fact that part of a hard drive has to be formatted and installing linux and all...or is this done once only?

There should be no difference in your boot process. No actual part of the hard drive is actually formatted with a linux filesystem, as i tried to explain above, it uses files which are formatted with the linux filesystem. Windows has no idea that linux is installed on those files, it only see's them as being files. And the boot process of the virtual machine is very quick.

cool.thanks. so the fact that windows doesnt know about linux's existence will probably also eliminate any conflicts..

[factorg]

^^yes it does

[batista]

i really like gentoo and fedora

[muggeh]

Re: LINUX for Noobs. Distributions, experiences, help, etc

I'm also a big fan of Gentoo, what i did was start messing with Suse for a while and then get into Gentoo to get a better insight in the inner workings.

Now i run both, Suse on my laptop and Gentoo on my main pc.

Also Gentoo hands Suse it's ass performance wise if configured/compiled properly.

[msanchez]

Re: LINUX for Noobs. Distributions, experiences, help, etc

poop

[madmrmojo]

Re: LINUX for Noobs. Distributions, experiences, help, etc

I happen to like debian...
been messin' around with fedora 2, and i have to admit i like it quite a bit...