I think my virtual machines left about 1-2gb for the swap partition. When I did it I think I followed the same rules as for the Windows page file, 1.5x-2x RAM and I have my VMs set to use 768mb of RAM.

My rule for swap is RAM + 1 GB that way I am guaranteed no trouble, even with hibernation.

/ I generally give between 10 and 15 GiB, which is more than enough. My current install on my laptop is 12.5 GiB for / IIRC, of which I think I am using around half.

Then I always encrypt /home, just because I <3 encrypted personal data.

Good call. I was going to set it to 1GB, but now you mention hibernation...


Ok. I will go with 20. I think. I tend to install a lot of development libraries so I think 20ish should be what I want.

I expected nothing less from you



I am moving from Ubuntu to Arch, as I really dislike Ubuntu's update method. Rolling release is the way forward in my opinion. Also in separating / and /home I can always move back if I dislike Arch more.

Which version of Arch should be downloaded? I know I want the x86 version but I see folders labelled 2009 and 2010 but then there is latest and archboot when I use their HTTP download mirrors.

Great. Arch Linux is pretty awesome.


"latest" is just a symlink to the latest image (currently 2010.05). From that folder, get netinstall if your target machine has internet access, core if not.

Actually, since Arch is rolling release, it doesn't matter what version of the installation media you use. Once installed (and also updated if not using netinstall), you'll be at the same point regardless of the version.

As I understand it, Fedora is a community developed distro which Red Hat supports and uses as something of a testing ground for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Think of them as brothers: Fedora is the younger, happy to mess around and try new things, while Red Hat is a bit older, with more responsibilities and thus a bit more cautious, but they still bear a strong family resemblance.


I'm now thinking about switching to Arch. The main thing that bugs me with Fedora is having to reinstall (since I have plenty of stuff from third party repos) every 6-12 months or risk a lack of updates. I'd also like to see if my ability to mysteriously break wine -that is, things be unusually uncooperative for unknown reasons- is just me/somewhere in ~/home or is me + Fedora. Other than that and some minor stuff, I'm happy enough with it.

I wanna compare two (plain) text files and delete any identical lines. I'm guessing it is easy enough to do, but I don't know how, and can't think of the right phrasing to search for it. Help, please?

Nevermind. :confused:

Not related to Linux, but try Sumatra PDF. Very lightweight and does exactly what I need it to with no fuss or muss (it pretty much JUST reads pdfs and that's it. Very simple interface).

Oh man, I sooooo want Fedora 16 to be called http://beefymiracle.org/.... it's just soooo awesome on so many levels.

Given the (apparently) imminent release of Duke, it'd be even more awesome .

Ok, so it isn't really about Linux, but I was wondering if anyone had some good place to start learning about the basics of MySQL and stuff. Like good tutorials for setting it up and understanding the basic structure, getting a bit into understanding the SQL language.


saying "SQL language" is like saying "ATM machine" :yuck:

Well there's something wrong with dev.mysql.com at the moment but when it's sorted out http://downloads.mysql.com/docs/refman-5.5-en.a4.pdf should do it.

If I wanted to RTFM I'd just man it up (oh, that sounds catchy, I think I'll refer to it that way from now on ). I'm looking more along the lines of tutorials and bite-sized pieces of info. I don't want a cyanide capsule

Note: I already have mysql's installation, post-install and setup guides bookmarked, but I'm looking for other sources. I know some people will say that the official documentation on this stuff is the best, but for starter reading material I always find it to be the worst way for me to get started.

Well I could give you http://web.studenti.math.hr/~manger/bp/BP-skripta-v2.pdf but somehow I doubt that will help much.

Maybe using a relational database would be better for learning SQL?

The most awesome thing about Linux is the terminal. Discuss.

I'm kidding, no discussion is necessary!

Nowadays I spend most of my time in a terminal. Doing sysadmin stuff, writing python and bash scripts in vim, ... I've even started using irssi and cmus to replace Kopete and Clementine. The only GUI app that's running right now (besides KDE related stuff) is Chromium.

[edit] Oh, and Yakuake is awesome.

I must admit I was running xterm as it being lightweight means its startup time is great (over things like the GNOME Terminal). However, I am thinking of moving to urxvtd and using a daemon to reduce startup time.

I prefer GUI programs for a lot of things as their learning curve is a lot less steep. For example, I use irssi as it is running on a screen terminal on a remote host and I access it over ssh but 90% of the time when I want to do something I have to use Google to find out how to do it.

I know that for SQL Server you can write out scripts to do various things, by learning SQL I meant something akin to that but for MySQL (maybe it doesn't exist, but I'd be surprised if it didn't)

Sorry, it was tbh a bit of a poke at MySql. Another SQL implementation which is closer to relational algebra is PostgreSQL. From what I have heard it is generally better than MySQL and given MySQLs lack of Intersect statement I am inclined to believe them.

I need help with Konsole. Anyone know how to do this?

"Provide a list of files that shows each group on your Linux system is the owner."

In other words how do I make a file owned by all groups on my system?

I am using openSUSE Linux 2.6.34.7-0.7

Anybody know where I can get EEEbuntu 4 beta? I can't seem to find it.

Anyone got some good tips for adding security to ssh? I'm already probably going to disable keyboard authentication and use only keys, but I was wondering if there is anything else I should consider?

does anyone know if there is any software for linux that helps you determine the ideal wattage for the PSU in the computer? i'm working on a used computer and it currently has a 400watt PSU but i know that it's geforce MX 4000 couldn't possibly need that and with the noise the PSU fan is making it might have to be replaced soon


the terminal is nice when you would normally have to navigate through countless menus to get to what you need but if you aren't on the computer for a long time then you could easily forget a lot of the commands and it isn't as easy as remembering where to navigate through to change settings