After a long battle with technology, Rhune Lord wrote: > Ok, how much should I donate to /usr and /var? However much you need. It's easier to expand a filesystem than it is to shrink one, so you might want to take what you're using now and add 20-30%. I have 5G for /var (some things expand to about 1G when portage is building them) and 6G for /usr (friends come and go, programs accumulate). >> If the machine isn't a dual-boot machine > No dual boot[,] Kubuntu all the way. You could do LVM, then. Read the HOWTO and understand it first before you try that, though. > PC-BSD (and its KDE interface) and he is showing me why he believes > [it's] better and how to write drivers. Hm. Typically, if you have to write drivers for hardware, the project isn't ready for non-hobbyist use. > my goal is to work on converting programs from Windows to Linux. This is a difficult thing to do since so many extant programs don't have source available, and the places that own the source are not interested in porting. Ah well, HTH, -- There is not enough coffee in the world. --TimC in ASR My blog and resume: http://crow202.dyndns.org:8080/wordpress/ Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss