On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Easwar Hariharan <meindian...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Windows XP fits in 5 GB space. Just that it doesn't leave any space > for anything else to be installed after installing the drivers. ;) (my > experiment) If you just want an OS, XP is for you,Vista/7 are > definitely not.If you want a functional system along with the OS in 5 > GB of space, yep, Linux is the way to go. > I will certainly not go towards Redmond ever again. Not that XP or Win7 are bad OS's but I have come to love Linux. Even when i was using XP, i never had Virus or malware issues. I am a pretty safe and sensible user that way. The unreliability of XP in case of a power outage or crash (i don't have a UPS or laptop) was what forced me to Linux. I was using a lot of free ware / fossware and Portable apps from portableapps.com, portablefreeware.com and winpenpack. A few days ago had a look at a W7 system and liked it. However even with very little apps it was 18.7GB. Thats more than many times all my data combined. Thats also the reason i will not go towards Linux distros that occupy space of a similar size. Thats where the simple and elegance of Arch, Debian and a few others like AntiX comes in. Thats also the reason i like to play with mini distros that fit in under 200MB iso with all desktop apps. My partitioning is this: 2 Primaries of 7 GB each, swap of 2GB, 2 logicals of 7 GB each and 3 data partitions of 40GB each for all data. The home for ubuntu is not separated but resides in the same partition as /. The idea with having 2 pri + 2 logicals was to experiment with distos. once of them has ubuntu and one has Slitaz. The other 2 are vacant. Ubuntu will stay for a while till I get the nerve to move to a Rolling release. Any advice what should i be trying considering the past few posts that you may have gone thru. Obviously it should fit in the 7GB. Regards Narendra Diwate
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