Installed Linux Again :P - Kubuntu

[Phait]

Hey hows it goin'?

http://www.kubuntu.org

Decided to give Linux a try again and I'm trying out Kubuntu - prety cool. My last attempt was Mandrake and I'd screwed that over a couple times

Artemiy didn't you do a soundset for KDE, or THE soundset? I was searching KDE.org for credits but didn't see you... help clear this up cause everytime I hear a sound I keep thinking of you

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"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing..." -- Jim Morrison

[Artemiy]

Phait,

I myself plan migrating to Kubuntu - this is THE distro. I think it's the future of Linux - as it's based on Ubuntu / Debian which is the most rock-solid Linux out there, and all vendors rely on Debian only.

As about KDE, all releases since 3.3 (e.g. 3.3, 3.4, 3.5) include the system sound set I created, with over 60 jingles and effects in total.

Here are some of these:
http://kdevibes.artemio.net/tmp/

If these are what you hear, then the Kubuntu guys were clever enough not to include some silly crap instead of them Mandriva really disappointed me here, because they used some sort of a piece of a commercial track, cut and faded out - that is a huge shame.

[Artemiy]

BTW, Phait, your site isn't working since about 3 weeks ago, the domain has expired...

[Phait]

"BTW, Phait, your site isn't working since about 3 weeks ago, the domain has expired..."

I know, I can't afford it this year anymore. I'm up at http://hosting.alanwake.net/tcf/ until then.

Actually I probably can get a years worth of hosting and domain(s) now that I have $75 from Christmas, but I'd rather have this game instead

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Website: phait-accompli.com
Thoughts & Philosophies: Just Some Thoughts

"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing..." -- Jim Morrison

[dboulden]

Phait,

I don't know who you were using for hosting, but I use 1&1 (well, the European section of this company), this package is damned good value:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Hostin ... _lf=Static

Even this beginner package at $2.99 per month gets you:

1 domain name included
5,000 MB web space
FTP access
PHP3,4 & 5
10 MySQL databases
250Gb traffic bandwidth per month.

That's damned good value!

Dave

:: http://www.drstudio.demon.co.uk/ :: http://www.myspace.com/daveboulden ::
"Musicians fall into three categories: those with a physical block, those with a mental block and those with a wooden block". Unfortunately, I'm in the 1st category!

[Artemiy]

Dave, holy damn, that's a freaking cool price! I wish we have such prices here soon too. So far the best offer we have is $100 per year = free domain, 2 GB space, unlimited traffic, cPanel/PHP/mySQL/etc.

[Phait]

I used http://www.hostforweb.com the $50 plan (I've been meaning to upgrade to the $100/yr) and I don't plan on changing despite that there are better deals. I think a lot of those cheap deals as mentioned above are too good to be true, and shits gonna hit the fan sometime. I just feel more better with HFW.

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Website: phait-accompli.com
Thoughts & Philosophies: Just Some Thoughts

"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing..." -- Jim Morrison

[Artemiy]

Back to the topic, Phait! Did you like Kubuntu? Is there's something wrong with it?

[dboulden]

Phait... yes, I agree with you... but would point out that 1&1 are no "fly-by-nights". I've had 4 years solid service from them... they host over 5 million domains. I host about a dozen websites with them and also have a dedicated server with them. My largest site on their hosting does around 5,000 hits a day.

All the same, you are quite right to stick with the company you know and trust.

Artemio, there's nothing to stop you using their hosting. Most of there european data centres are in Germany.

)

Dave

:: http://www.drstudio.demon.co.uk/ :: http://www.myspace.com/daveboulden ::
"Musicians fall into three categories: those with a physical block, those with a mental block and those with a wooden block". Unfortunately, I'm in the 1st category!

[analog_]

Hi Phait,
Any issues with the installation?
Cause Im going to install the latest Kubuntu release on this weekend.
Is Firewire Audio Hardware now supported?

Yam TX816, SY77, TG77; Kurz PC88; Rol Jv2080, VS1680, Fantom X6; Event 20/20; and my old MPC2000XL returned as midi MASTER

[Phait]

Analog

No issues w/ installatoin. I have no idea if it supports firewire, as I'm not using it for music - I have my Mac for that. I installed it just to mess around and maybe do cross-webdevelopment between Linux and Windows (because recently I had a server issue in Windows that I may not encounter on a Linux installation since I can't seem to fix it)...

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Website: phait-accompli.com
Thoughts & Philosophies: Just Some Thoughts

"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing..." -- Jim Morrison

[Artemiy]

Analog:

The (K)ubuntu guys seem to be pretty open to any suggestions and you can put your ideas on their bugzilla. I already filed a wish for inclusion of the "realtime" module so I can work with audio hard-realtime out of the box.

Phait:

So how's it compared to Mandriva? I heard it boots and works faster. I'll be definitely installing 6.04 when it comes out.

[Sami Cokar]

When installing Kubuntu, or any other Linux variant, try to have at least two partitions: one for root (/) and one for (/home). Your documents, etc will go into /home/username. This will save you trouble in the future if/when you need to do a re-install or update -- wipe the OS files and leave /home untouched.

My partition scheme (a common one)

/boot partition -- 256MB (you can easily have 64MB and be fine)
/ partition -- 8GB has served me fine for about 4 years on this PC
swap partition -- 2GB (depends on RAM, 2GB is fine if you don't care)
/home either the rest of the drive or another hard drive.

You can have more partitions or less, life is easier if "/home" is on another partition or drive.

[Artemiy]

Sami, I have 6 partitions on my 80 GB HDD

swap
/
/usr
/home/audio
/home/files
/home/data

But in general you need three: swap, root and home. Separating root and home is also about better performance too.

[Phait]

I had no idea you could/should partition for better performance. Not different from Windows part. and swap part. as I already do.

On install I was advised to do this with Kubuntu but I didn't. Not a huge deal at the moment.

Hmm as far as installation, I recall Mandrake taking a lot longer but it was like 4 CD's, and also had a list of packages you could select (ALOT) - Kubuntu just 1 cd.

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Website: phait-accompli.com
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"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing..." -- Jim Morrison