On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 08:27:29AM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > Following advice from Hendrik, I installed SQUEEZE on the home computer. > > On my home computer I dumped Ubuntu and installed squeeze. On that > same box I have xp, fedora14, w7 and Debian Squeeze. Perhaps because > I was teethed on Fedora, that I have it as preferences, but I am > really looking for ext4 support for linux. Both UBUNTU and Fedora > offer that.
And did you find it in Debian? > I am starting to do coding in C and just need the most current TCP/IP > socket software. If the Debian and Fedora versions are at the same > level, great. Check out IPv6 support while you're at it. You may turn out to need it. > Why did I dump UBUNTU. Because of grub2. With debian, and Fedora, I > can easily use grub to select any one of the 4 operating systems at > boot time. Debian seems to be trying to impose grub2 on me. Not on you? I had to explicitly forbid the grup upgrade in aptitude. There were a number of complaints about grub2 failures when it first appeared, and I was unwilling to abandon bootability. I haven't heard any complaints recently. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
