How long will I last

[zetec452]

Done something a little crazy tonight.

My pc has constantly been crashing recently and was due a format. I've been playing with Ubuntu for a couple of weeks and thought why not. Lets just do it and try it on my main rig.

Im not a big gamer so won't miss that. I do have a few windows networking programs that will require wine. The only main snag is that I can't see my documents and stuff on my NTFS drive. Im sure there is a way out for this.

So, how long do you give me? Couple of weeks? few days.

Place your bets now

 

[zetec452]

I'll at least do 12 hours. Off to bed in a bit

I must say that my pc is pretty nifty at the moment.

Will download the 64 bit version over the weekend and probably pop that on my pc monday.

Just spotted a thread about accessing NTFS partitions so im happy

 

[zetec452]

So far so good.

Got a few gripes at the moment but looking good.

Need to take a look at the following:

MP3 support (have seen thread below)
AVI support
Can't seem to configure VNC at the moment but have been messing around and installed mulitple versions which probably isn't a good idea. Can SSH fine though.
Mozilla thunderbird is a bit gay with MS exchange so will probably look at a different mail client.
Can't fully use NTFS yet.

Other than that. All is good. Lasted a bit longer than I first expected but enjoying the challange.

 

[zetec452]

Cheers for the help chaps.

I have tried a few different distro's in the past but pretty much given up due to the sheer amount of hard work to get a decent system. With Ubuntu I have managed to setup a decent (ish) Linux system replacing windows which wouldn't have happened without the Automatrix thingy.

I'd like to connect to my pc via vnc so am after the vnc server. However this morning I recieved the 64 bit version and have since formatted and popped that on . Runs rather nicely.

I do have a spare hard disk so will probably pop it on fat32 or something and move some of my windows stuff over.