Last year I changed my main development work from .NET to Java. I figured out that I don't need any special feature from Windows anymore. I decided to try with Ubuntu Linux and survive.
I installed
Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition on
software RAID 5 for root and RAID 1 for /boot. On Windows I used Intel ICH9R RAID and I have a lot of troubles to configure it on Linux, so I decided to use Software Raid. The bigest problem was, that raid arrays was constantly in Offline mode if I rebooted computer. When I install Ubuntu on software raid there was still old raid arrays making mess, because I didn't delete them, I just switched in BIOS from RAID to AHCI mode. When I deleted all arrays for ICH9R controller everything goes smooth and I rebooted in Ubuntu Linux.
On first day I installed and used:
I'm still looking for good alternative for Adobe Lightroom.
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