Derek Martin wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Bill Freeman wrote:
>
> > A coworker has a Sony Vaio, and I'm going to help him set it
> > up to dual boot with Mandrake 7.0 (single CD that I picked up at the
>
> P.S. I would recommend you give him the latest and greatest of whatever
> distro you give him, just so that he has all the niceties that each new
> release brings... RH7.0 is out and all the feedback I've heard on it so
> far has been very positive. Also I believe the latest Mandrake is 7.1
>
> I'd recommend you stay away from Caldera and TurboLinux... I personally
> thought Caldera sucked and that seems to be the consensus; and while I
> have no experience with Turbo most of the people I talked to who did
> seemed to think it was trash too.
>
> Debian gets a lot of kudos here, but it's a bear to install as compared to
> some of the others.
Interesting that Corel is Debian based and the install was about as slick
as it is possible to get.
I believe I counted four questions that Corel's installer asked, things like
"give the whole disk to Linux?" I said "no" so it gave me the chance to
partition and then it went and auto-installed, slick as a whistle. When it
booted up for the first time, there's a nice GUI wrapping the LILO menu,
including an entry for the Windows system I'd left in place. Nice! Wish
I had more chance to spend time playing in that sandbox, instead of the
ones that pay the bills...
--Bruce McCulley
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