On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM, WEIR Andrew <<a href="mailto:andrew.weir@thomascarr.vic.edu.au">andrew.weir@thomascarr.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Jim and Others,<br>I have just returned from ubuntu back to
windows. </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">I'll add that i will only be doing it for about 12 weeks
whilst i edit and create the college year book. Adobe indesign does not seem to
like running under WINE.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div>You perhaps should have thought about virtualising... VirtualBox is free and part of hardy. If memory space is a concern, well, memory is dirt cheap these days - I just got an extra gig for my dept laptop for $25 - enough to have a virtual windows running in the background really <br>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Firstly i used the ubuntu 8.04 64 bit edition as i have a
dual core machine. Now that was my first correct decision, stability was great,
speed was amazing.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">One thing that was missing was a great tool called
automatix Ended development at 7.10. Very useful tool to install that would
download and get other major application like open office and install MP3
support and DVD codec's.<br></font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Automatix was a hack; this is now easy to so using synaptic (see <a href="http://ubuntuguide.org">ubuntuguide.org</a>) - enable the medibuntu repository, and install a few apps (really, that's all automatix did anyway)<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">However saying that synaptic and apt-get are excellent
tools. One of my pieces of advice is to set the Repository for updates to one of
the Australian servers. I was lucky in the fact the Internode mirror the ubuntu,
debian and red hat repositories and as a customer i get those downloads
unmetered.(saves a few gigs over a month)<br></font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>So do netspace - which is useful as our school uses them as our ISP. They also mirror the Open Education Disc.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Except for no 64 bit version of flash being available
(there is a way to use the 32bit version) it has been
brilliant.</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Do you really need 64bit? except for large number crunching and graphics processing the difference is probably negligible.<br></div></div><br>ciao<br><br>
vik<br>