[ale] speaking of KDE 4.1 and Ubuntu 8.10

[ale at sixit.com (Robert Reese~)]

Hi Jim,

I'm glad you like my plan.

>> What size to make the boot partitions, and can I get away with
>> just one and simply choose which desktop environment I want to
>> run?
>>
> One boot partition is fine. 100MB is plenty. Grub will point to the
> vista partition for boot so no windows bits get stored in /boot

Excellent.  I've always let the installer choose the partition sizes for me regardless.  I've tried before with custom partitions, usually with less-than-optimum results.


>> What size for the swap partition since I have all the space I
>> want?

> The old adage of twice the swap space as ram is no longer valid
> given than ram sizes are so much larger. From much reading of
> kernel devels discussions, the current mentality is twice the ram
> as swap up to 2GB RAM/ 4GB swap. After that, more swap space will
> no longer be a benefit. So plan on 4GB RAM + 4 GB swap.

That went along with my thinking exactly, and it is great to get your opinion with the background showing the reasoning.


> If you _still_ run out of ram, try closing firefox more often :-)

Tell me about it!


By the way, thank you for fixing my subscription problems.  Also, as for your question regarding the resume background via the Gimp, I'm not sure how to use the Gimp to make a background that is difficult to alter.  However, take a look at the paper in whichever dead president's denomination you have handy... see the colored fibers?   Try making a graphic with a similar pale background with random swirls, etc.  Essentially the goal is to make an unobtrusive graphic that is difficult to alter without it being obvious.

:c)

Thanks again for all your help!
Robert~