Which Linux to start with?

[milomak]

dabbler - all linux distros i have used come with evolution. not being familiar with evolution, i would however guess that if you know where evolution keeps the mail you can point other distros to the same location.

As a way of example, I use thunderbird and firefox and between XP, Fedora, Debian and Sidux, all share the same profile. I can't imagine that the same can't be done with Evolution (save for possibly Windows).

 

[chiskop]

dabbler, there is a folder in your home directory called .evolution (ctrl-H to see hidden files). Just copy that directory and all it's subdirectories across to a new installation - that'll keep all your mail, contacts, tasks etc as well as your preferences.

 

[milomak]

Ah chiskop has confirmed my suspicions.

It’s for reasons like that I keep a partition which is distro independent. By way of example assume the partition is /dev/hda1. So assume you mount it as /mount/partition. I would then do the below as root (in a terminal).

# cd /home/<user>
# mkdir /mount/partition/evolution
# cp –R /home/<user>/.evolution /mount/partition/evolution
# rm –rdfv /home/<user>/.evolution
# ln –s /mount/partition/evolution .evolution
# chmod –R 777 /mount/partition/evolution

Given you use Ubuntu, I would add as the first command sudo –i.

Note that this is off the top of my head. I will test it when I get home later on today. Conceptually though it seems to me it should work.

 

[nic777]

Hate to say it but from what I have seen ATI cards seem to be difficult with Linux due to ATI (iirc) not providing a linux driver. Or some such.

tbf with that type of attitude you should leave linux alone as you will find it not user friendly. mainly because you seem to have a strong preconceived idea against it. i install all sorts of linux distros and they always pick up my hardware without issue. i'm sure you could find many a forum littered with people complaining about how vista is not picking up their hardware.

Well put and I fully agree.