Trying to get the responses all in one:
1) I really hate Solaris, period. I hate it on our Sun boxes, too. Maybe that's because the commands seem very clunky compared to HP-UX. I hate the interfaces. I haven't tried OS, but I can't imagine that it's shed its legacy. 2) On a client, why is Debian better? For servers, you could make any argument for any distro and I'm sure it would make sense on one level or another, but I'm putting this on my lappie. 3) I used to have Mandrake on a lappie, and didn't mind it, but it doesn't seem to have the following that Ubuntu has now, and in my experience, when I can't fix something, there's no substitute for having lots of folks in the community (but I haven't tried Mandriva recently, either). 4) The fracturing of the distros is a problem for overall Linux adoption, IMHO, but that's just my HO. 5) The reason for putting GRUB on its own partition is so that each distro and release doesn't overrun and hijack your settings and preferences. With GRUB on its own partition, your control is much better, especially if you have the possibility of actually multibooting - e.g. in Richard's situation where he's pulling the cord on Intrepid to go back to Hardy. In my case, after my disaster in-place upgrade of Hardy to Intrepid, when I decided to have multiple distros in place, I put Intrepid in first. Then I put in Hardy. The Hardy GRUB is the one that boots, since it is the one that was installed last. This is exactly what will happen with each and every install - the latest will hijack GRUB and you are at its mercy. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
