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Moved from Vista to Ubuntu

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:

• Firefox
• Eclipse 3.5
• Sun Java JDK
• Apache
• PHP
• MySQL
• GIMP
• Open Office
• VLC
• Brasero Disk Burner
• Pidigin
• Last.fm
• Restricted Extras

I'm still looking for good alternative for Adobe Lightroom.

Useful links

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID
• http://bfish.xaedalus.net/?p=188
• http://tuxtraining.com/2008/11/04/setting-up-software-raid-in-ubuntu-server
• http://www.ducea.com/2009/03/08/mdadm-cheat-sheet/
• http://johnpaulett.com/2009/06/26/install-eclipse-galileo-3-5-on-ubuntu-jaunty-9-04/
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

posted @ Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:28 PM