At 07:57 PM Monday 9/5/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 9/5/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> So, any recommendations?
>
> _____
> ¹As I mentioned a few days ago when I was trying
> to get these new hard drives installed, I have
> the latest version (8.0) of Partition Magic and
> the Boot Magic program which comes with it in
> order to accomplish this (though I haven't set
> them up that way yet), and I left 100GB on the
> primary hard drive for a Linux partition, just in
> case those facts are of significance . . .
>
>
> -- Ronn! :)
>
Well, Ubuntu plays nice with Windows,
I was just reading about it in today's OSTG
update (the first I had heard of it), and was thinking about it . . .
as do Fedora and Mandrake.
Those are two of the ones I have on CD, although
they may not be the most recent releases.
Linspire is
(I think) temporarily free as in beer, and SuSe is fairly popular.
I think I have a version of that somewhere, too.
Of
course, there is Debian as well, if you are the moral Free Software type,
but Ubuntu is generally more useable. It's good you left a primary partition
open. That'll make things easier.
Just because I sometimes ask simple questions
doesn't mean that I am totally stupid. ;)
If you don't mind building the distro yourself mostly, Gentoo has
unparalleled comprehensive package management, which is also the most
up-to-date.
For right now I think I want something which will
be ready out of the box, and maybe later look at upgrading to something else.
My personal experience is that it's somewhat unstable (one
particular program, ncurses, particularly fubars things up), though as
always YMMV.
Speaking of such, I just tried to uninstall a
small program I've been using successfully for
months and reinstalled it on the new disk. I
then spent the next hour or so downloading
drivers from M$.com because the computer would not boot up properly.
~Maru
is a universe of possibilities. We haven't even *begun* to discuss the other
Unixes out there!
Any suggestions appreciated.
-- Ronn! :)
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