[Offtopic] Sharing linux and Windows files on a dual boot machine

[victor rajewski]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM, WEIR Andrew <
andrew.weir at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:

>  Jim and Others,
> I have just returned from ubuntu back to windows.
> 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.
>
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

>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>

Automatix was a hack; this is now easy to so using synaptic (see
ubuntuguide.org) - enable the medibuntu repository, and install a few apps
(really, that's all automatix did anyway)


> 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)
>

So do netspace - which is useful as our school uses them as our ISP. They
also mirror the Open Education Disc.


> Except for no 64 bit version of flash being available (there is a way to
> use the 32bit version) it has been brilliant.
>

Do you really need 64bit? except for large number crunching and graphics
processing the difference is probably negligible.

ciao

vik
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