Windows user, want to get started in Slackware, seeking all kinds of advice

bbo · 07-01-2005, 10:58 AM

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Originally posted by Zaelryn

I tried to ping www.linuxquestions.org and got "unknown host".

Check your /etc/resolv.conf file. There should have your valid dns setting. If not,
add your default gateway in that file.
Add this line.

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx <-- (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is default gateway of your router)

trickykid · 07-07-2005, 09:26 AM

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Originally posted by jong357
Yea, I wouldn't worry about the SWAP space. You rarely use it. If I had a 200Mb .bmp file and I opened it up and started zooming in and changing things, it would probably eat alot of the swap. Other than that, it's really not used for much. Linux is designed to use your memory first, swap second.

You should really rethink what you've just mentioned here about swap, most of it is false as each system is always different from the other. Swap is highly recommended as it comes useful for many other reasons, not just for your 200 bmp files.. who uses bmp files anyways, reminds me of Windows98 and their crappy Paint program....

maginotjr · 07-07-2005, 10:36 AM

hahah

is just someone make a thread asking for advice about migration from windows to linux that every one come to defend their system

1496 views, 46 (47now) replies

nice ;D

jong357 · 07-07-2005, 12:47 PM

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Originally posted by trickykid
who uses bmp files anyways, reminds me of Windows98 and their crappy Paint program....

Thats why I have bmp files laying around still...

For the 'average' home user a swap isn't so important. As long as you have atleast 512Mb of RAM anyway... I ran without one for almost a year with no ill effect on performance. In fact, everytime I check 'free', it's never using my swap, even under load.

The whole "2.5x the ammount of memory needs to be allocated to swap" was started by Windows and people have been assuming that's true on Linux as well. Not so.. Thats just a waste of space.

bird603568 · 07-07-2005, 01:34 PM

I only have 64megs of swap just in case for some reason i needed a swap partition. of course i have 2 gigs of ram