Andy, As far as your first question, I would really recommend Gentoo or Debian. I'm not a huge Debian fan, but if you don't want to deal with compiling every single package from source, it's a good way to go and still get easy, automatic updates. I run Debian on my server at home. On my desktop, I run Gentoo, which I like extremely well. When I first installed it, I didn't know much about Linux. I had used a real old version of Red Hat and a couple of different Mandrake versions, but I never had used any of them as my main OS. If you're thinking that Gentoo is hard to install/use, I'd say that, while it's not as easy to install as Red Hat and friends, it's not as hard as some people think. I highly recommend it. It's great to just be able to type "emerge younameit" and have that program downloaded, compiled and installed for you. :)
To address your second question: I don't think there would be any problem with installing Debian on a free HD partition, then configuring one or the other of the two distros to host the boot loader. It really should work quite well, but I'm not as knowledgeable on this as I am on distros. :) Joshua K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:43, Andrew Linsenbardt wrote: > November 3, 2003 > > Hey, everyone... In light of RedHat's lovely announcement > (http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/11/03/1657205.shtml?tid=150&tid=2&; > tid=82&tid=94), I think now would be a good time for me to try moving > away from RedHat for once and trying something new, since I've been > using RedHat since v6.2... > > Question 1: Any suggestions on good distros to try? I don't really > want to go with Mandrake and would probably like to try moving away > from .rpm altogether, mostly in an effort to move away from the "easy > way" of doing things... I know some people use Gentoo, but I'm not > sure I really wanna go that route just yet...and I also don't want to > deal with the Windoze-clones like Lycoris or Lindows, either... > > Question 2: If I were to try installing Debian on my current system, > how feasible would this be? I mean, I run a server with my RedHat 9 > box and would like to keep the files on it intact...so would it be > possible to simply install Debian onto a partition of the current drive > structure and try it dual-boot with GRUB, which is already in place? > Or even with a boot disc? I just wasn't sure how well RedHat 9 and > Debian would play with each other...I don't really want to try > installing it only to find out that Debian will try to "take over" and > therefore remove my files, etc... > > ---------------------------------------- > Andy Linsenbardt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://andyl.homelinux.net/ > > "No matter where you go, there you are." > -- U.S.S. Excelsior slogan > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
