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I'm looking to install a linux distro for dual boot. What is the best, relatively small distro???
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"Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)
"I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic." -
If you don't want to dual boot, but just want to try Linux (which I suggest):
There's Beatrix, Knoppix, and now a Gentoo Fizzlewizzle LiveCD.
For actual installs, Ubuntu's very nice for that sort of thing.B♭3 -
Debian is pretty easy to install these days, and mighty small.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Kaak,
I want to warn you about the road you are contemplating going down.
Right now, you got the tan, you got the build, you got the six pack. The hoes can't get enough of you.
BUT I AM WARNING YOU
You go down the path of Linux and you will lose all those things. Do you really want that dogg????We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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Kaak,
Depends on what you would like to do. Knoppix LiveCD is always a good first choice. You can get your toes wet without going through installation and configuration. Gentoo can be installed and tuned to a small footprint, but that involves a lot of tweaking and requires a good level of skills. Ubuntu is probably the best choice because the installation is almost transparent.
che,
Debian itself isn't exactly easy to install. However there are a whole host of other distros that are based on Debian, including Knoppix and Ubuntu.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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UR: i'm got some experience in linux. we did a lot of programming in it in college
and ted: i've got a degree in computer science. if that doesn't send them running, i don't know what will
"Mal nommer les choses, c'est accroître le malheur du monde" - Camus (thanks Davout)
"I thought you must be dead ..." he said simply. "So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. A kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."Comment
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Dominatrix is the best build my friend, I recommend it wholeheartedly
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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What happened to my pics????????
By the way I have a MIS degree also so it's not like was making fun of people as I'm a part of the same group.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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Kaak, just go with Red Hat Fedora. It's the most widely used in business so is the most practical for your needs.We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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I honestly can't recommend Fedora. While Anaconda is a very slick installer, the rest of Fedora is such a pain and a bloat to tweak.
Ubuntu, on the other hand, is fast, friendly, and much easier to learn and tweak.
Gentoo's the best for learning and tweaking, but it also requires the most time investment, and a willingness to accept mistakes and goofs. The Gentoo fizzlewizzle LiveCD, on the other hand, is a good way to try out a full system.B♭3Comment
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I'd say go for a Ubuntu system . They'll even ship you the CDs if you don't have the bandwidth to download them ( and I recieved my request of 20 packs of 2 cds each , even though I live in India ) .
Currently , I'm posting this from a LiveCD of Ubuntu , as my hard disk got fried to do a malfunctioning UPS ( or maybe just that its time had come ) . And nobody can tell the difference - my use of the PC has not significantly been affected ( I have two hard disks , and one which did not get fried has some useful data , so I just mount it and continue ) ( I do have a GB of DDR RAM , dual channel , so that might help a bit ) .Comment
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I thought they were all made up names Q Cubed. Gentoo fizzlewizzle? Please....Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Well , it's true . The names are real . Ubuntu has had the names Warty Warthog , Hoary Hedgehog , and the upcoming Breezy Badger .Comment
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FreeBSD
"I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
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It depends on what you need. If you want a system that is small and you can tweak all you want, Fedora is not it. On the other hand, if you want a distro with a bunch of common applications and daemons so you can set something up quickly with a minimal of effort, Fedora is quite good. Same thing with SuSE really, and I presume Mandriva (sp?) also.Originally posted by Q Cubed
I honestly can't recommend Fedora. While Anaconda is a very slick installer, the rest of Fedora is such a pain and a bloat to tweak.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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