[olug] Other distros

[Mike Peterson]

I have been playing with, teaching with, and using Linux in production use
at work for over 7 years also.
I am interested in what you find and what you end up using for sure.

I liked what I seen in Turbolinux the last time I looked at it.

I have read about the ASP distribution but never installed it.

I do not rank Caldera high on my list of distributions to use.
Redmond is based on Caldera.

I am not sure what Lindows is based on for sure.

Corel was licensed to Xandros and they are coming out with a new release.
I liked Corel 1.0, but it needs to run on a machine by itself in my
experience.
It is based on Debian but the install trashed my 2000 Pro and ME so that I
had to reinstall them both.

I would will have to look into the other distros you mention and see what
they have to offer.

Good luck and keep us filled in.

I have Mandrake 8.0 and Windows 98 dual boot for my children and that combo
works great.

I have been watching FreeDOS over the years and I believe that it is
included inside of some Linux distros.
This would help you in trimming down the number of partitions you need if it
is part of the distro you choose.

----- Original Message -----
From: <bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Other distros


>
> I've been playing with Linux for about 7 years now, and believe me, I
still
> can't do half of what I can do in Windows, but I keep learning.  I have a
> big hill to climb to get my wife off of Windows, but she knows how I feel
> about XP's license.  So she'll either stay on 98, or she'll go to Linux,
> although Lindows looks promising.
>
> I think Grub has config files and such on the linux partition, and can't
> exist without it.  I have found a couple of boot managers today that seem
> to be pretty OS independent.  Partition Manager (Ranish) has a boot
manager
> that seems to be installed and configured with the Partition Manager
> software, which can reside on a boot floppy.  I also found Smart Boot
> Manager.  This bad boy installs completely into the MBR, and is
> self-contained.  I'm going to try both of these out and I'll report my
> findings if anyone is interested.
>
> Bill
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> I'm no guru but I /think/ grub will fill your boot manager needs.  It
> has a nice menu and will allow you to boot a kernel anywhere on your
> filesystem (I don't believe that lilo does this as easily if at all).
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> As far as weening someone off of Windows, I wish you the best of luck.
>  I still can't figure out how to cut and paste consistently in Gnome or
> KDE... It's frustrating to say the least.
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> Good luck,
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