[LUAU] Huron vs Gibbon

[John Montgomery]

I feel Huron is a big improvement to Gibbon you should be loading Huron.
Also Huron has Wubi built into the distro allowing you to install on Windows
in a way that is easy without the need to repartition the disk.  Also if the
Wubi install goes poorly it is easy to uninstall it leaving the Win system
intact and unchanged.  Really though for a multi OS Ubuntu and Windows
system I highly recommend doing Ubuntu as the base OS then loading Windows
XP in a virtual PC.  My favorite being Virtual Box which is free and
recently purchased by Sun Microsystems so you know it must have something
going for it.

Doing Linux as a base OS and windows in a virtual environment is the most
stable environment.  Then also if the Windows guest OS gets screwed up its
easy to copy over the image from a fresh master one restoring the Windows
guest OS to a pristine condition.

John A. Montgomery

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Jim Roby <jim at jimroby.com> wrote:

> I first went out and put this question on the Ubuntu list and got no
> response in two days,I then started reading the man pages on the Debian
> site.TKX all for the clear answers.The install of
> Ubuntu was a real dream,easy to make the right choices,lots of fail
> safe,and friendly.Once it was up and rebooted it offered the upgrade,and I
> assumed it was security patches,but 650meg later we were automatically
> upgraded to Huron,and it left on the root desktop an ISO file that can be
> burned to CD. Just too slick. In looking at comments on the Ubuntu site
> there were some badmouthing the Huron,yet I saw no comments about Gibbon.I
> assume Huron is out of beta,
> but is it too soon to have upgraded?
> I did notice that in Huron they had dropped the install of Gpart which I
> used first to split the disk for the two OSs,but getting it on board with
> Huron was simple point and click,again my head spins at how Kewl this distro
> is. I mostly deal with Windoz and carry around a Dos boot CD and a copy of
> Partition Magic.I do use a CD puppy which I use to check ram and also as a
> proof of concept
> as to if I'm dealing with a hardware or Windows(mal ware) problem.This is
> the first Linux distro that truly seems ready for prime time.I have been
> making copies and giving it to folks,knowing that
> I wouldn't be getting frantic call at night.
> This machine as mentioned is at a community center and will see a lot of
> different users,we have provided a single account and passwrd and will
> encourage users to set up  web mail accounts.
> It will be an interesting experiment to see it reception and how robust it
> is.
>
> Michael Bishop wrote:
>
> > Jim Roby wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > All attempts to right the Windows distro failed and I then decided to
> > > give the entire disk to Ubuantu.Now we have a boot menu that boots Ubuantu
> > > but still points to the non existant Win2K...it just yields an error message
> > > and you can go back to boot the working OS. I would like to wipe the menu
> > > which now doesn't look pro,but reading I see there is no uninstall of
> > > Grub...man pages say to over write it.
> > > Is this safe? And how should I go about it?  fdisk /mbr or something
> > > like that? Should I make a boot floppy first? machine has a floppy drive.
> > >
> > A boot loader (like Grub) is needed (just like Windows), but in Linux
> > it's more visible. If you don't need the extra space, then I would just
> > remove the Win2K option from grub. Open a terminal and:
> >
> > sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
> >
> > Scroll down to the bottom and comment out the Win2K line by putting a #
> > before the 4 lines associated with Win2K. It may look something like this:
> >
> > # title         Windows 95/98/NT/2000
> > # root          (hd0,0)
> > # makeactive
> > # chainloader   +1
> >
> > You can hide the grub menu on boot. There may be a hiddenmenu line that
> > is commented out, just remove the # from before it.
> >
> > As a final note, you may want to consider installing the latest version
> > of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron. So far it appears to be the great distro they've
> > created.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > > David Kiwerski wrote:
> > >
> > > > Seems so, but not very active presently.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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