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Just wondering
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Mandrake, purely because I keep killing it so many times and the install is so much easier (I'm just lazy!)
mandrake, cause it is the easiest to use for a newbie like me
Geez quite a few people voted, but know replies as to why they voted for what they voted.
Just a quick note. FreeBSD is *not* Linux. It is a free, Open Source and very popular BSD Unix. I am not irritated by this or anything, but just wanted to point it out. For those that have never used it, it is very different from Linux, in many, many ways.
All the same, I recommend that you try it out, it is awesome.
My favorite Linux Distro is Slackware.
I would have to pick SuSe.
Great support, and not too expensive (if you buy it)
and it comes with all the documentation you need.
My fave (at the moment) is SUSE 7.3, it's the first distro I've found that puts lilo onto a floppy by default if it sees that NT or 2k or XP is installed. It's easy to use, nice gui and great options when installing.
Jamie.
You like having lilo on a floppy?
I'm a debian woody man - apt-get install netcat nmap :-)
This is a little of topic but which would you recommend for someone fairly new to linux scene? I have tried Red hat 7 for a bit and it seemed ok but I'm just wandering about the others.
hmm me is a fan of free bsd but as was pointed out above it isn't a linux distro anyway me chose debian cause of it's easy costimisation in install... but me likes slackwear aswell.
Hell yes, it's quick and reliable, I used to put lilo on another partition then copy the bootsector, modify boot.ini etc etc, far too long and boring, lilo on a floppy suits me just fine.Quote:
Originally posted by petemcevoy
You like having lilo on a floppy?
J.
mmm, quick and reliable - not quite the words i'd use to describe floppy disks ;-)
I have /never/ had a problem with lilo in the mbr - i've tried other methods but, being lazy as i am, i find it easier just to accept the default. If floppy's work for you though - its all good.
I've only run into problems with Lilo in the mbr when NT or XP is already hogging the spot, I've only seen Mandrake negotiate my set-up and that was a while back, I had a multi-boot system of Win98, Win 2k pro, Win 2k Adv Server & NT Server.
I looked at Mandrake recently and found that whilst it's easy to install, it does tend to put things in the wierdest of places hence my latest install is with Suse.
J.
I'm dual booting NT4 and debian at the moment - lilo slotted in the mbr no probs, have heard stories though - maybe i'm just lucky! I used mandrake for a while but, like you, found it put things where i didn't really want want them - i like the fine granular control debian gives - it doesn't assume as much as mandrake seemed to.
I like Caldera. But, RedHat is better, and the first distro I ever used like 5 years ago is Slackware. All distro's are good. I can't choose one :P
Corel. Gotta love the penguin!
FreeBSD or Mandrake... Mandrake is nice and easy 2 use but FreeBSD is more security-minded
Ive used Mandrake 8.0 and winlinux 2000 before. Ill give you one guess on which one I like better.