[olug] Other distros

[Andrew Holm-Hansen]

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).  

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.

Good luck,

Andrew

andrew at einer.org

bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:

>As some of you might recall, last fall I built a new computer (for my
>wife).  It has 15 Gb of unused space that I reserved for a Linux partition.
>I am getting in the mood to do something about filling that space but I
>want to try something new.
>
>First let me fill you in on what this machine is going to do.
>
>Primarily desktop duty, with an emphasis on a good GUI.  I'm hoping that I
>can get it usable for my wife, and gradually ween her off of Windows (since
>I'll be damed if I'll agree to the XP license).  The machine  is safely
>nestled behind a firewall so security isn't quite as important.  I don't
>have any services I need to host.
>
>Since I want to also take this opportunity to try some other distros, I
>need some suggestions on boot managers.  Are there any out there that I can
>install that aren't dependent on  the distro?  I anticipate doing multiple
>installs/wipes and I'd like the boot screen to stay fairly consistent for
>my wife's sake.  A boot menu would also be most handy since I need to make
>this as friendly as possible. I can even make a boot manager partition if
>necessary.  I also want to install FreeDOS on a partition.
>
>Now I've used some of the big-name distros (RH, Mandrake, and an old, old,
>old version of Slackware), but I'd like to take this opportunity to try
>some of the other distros.    Here's a list of ones I'm looking at.  Any
>input/feedback would be appreciated.
>
>AspLinux
>BearOps
>Caldera
>IcePack
>Independence
>Linux Antarctica
>TurboLinux
>
>I want to try to do an FTP install, although if necessary I can burn an
>ISO.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>Bill
>
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