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I have recently fed up with the broken dependencies and potential boot problems after ever every update and decided to give Ubuntu a try – an action that was long awaiting on my to do list.

Although this does not mean I dumped Fedora – as I have been involved with Fedora every since the Fedora Core 1, it is a simple head up and look around.

The reasons for my recent ubuntu interest are

• Ubuntu has been around for a while and quite mature, even one can argue it is more stable then Fedora
• I have recently dived into the Android platform. Android uses the Ubuntu as the base
• I have also interest in intel’s netbook targeted OS – Moblin
• I have been long planning to get accustomed to debian breed linux systems
• If I get knowledgeable on ubuntu, I can convert more Microsoft users to Linux as Ubuntu seems to target the end users and remove the barriers for non-GPL software sources and propriety / copyrighted software
• etc, etc.

For those that are hardcore console users like me, when it comes to maintaining the OS, yum and rpm have always been the best friends. Now there seems to be a need for crash course to adopt apt and dpkg utilities and not surprisingly a simple  googling revealed ubuntu already prepared the info for us.

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Hello Everyone,

If you are one of those In-Love-With-Linux like me, and visit your friends with a linux installation CD always on you, I recommend you read this.

I have recently installed Fedora 12 to a colleague’s  laptop. As expected, his drive had one big partition spanned to the whole disk. Fedora, for some time has the resize disk option available in its installers – be it anaconda, or live cd installers. As you can guess we have resized the drive installed Fedora, booted into Fedora everything was fine – up until he tried to boot into the his old crap to check his email.

The NTFS partition was unusable!

The reason for that is, according to GParted Developers, “Something with either kernel, or parted or gparted is broken and not resizing partitions properly and it is beiing investigated.”

So if you do not want to disappoint your potential to-be Linux Lovers, I recommend using the gparted live cd till this problem is solved.

You can find the details and the link to download the gparted live cd here, http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

Happy 2010…

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Fedora Post-Installation

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