On many occasions, including at 04:48 AM
Wednesday 8/31/2005, William T Goodall has signed off with:
"It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run
out of things they can do with UNIX." - Ken Olsen, President of DEC,
1984.
It always reminds me that my experience with Unix
dates back to (roughly) that era, and was indeed on a DEC system.
For some time now I have been planning to put
some version of Linux on whatever machine I had
to make it a dual-boot machine¹, but for various
reasons have not had the opportunity to do so
until now. I've heard several people here
comment on their experiences with and preferences
for various Linux distributions, so before
installing any of the several different ones on
CD or DVD which I have accumulated over the past
few years, I thought I'd ask for recommendations
(or warnings as to which ones, if any, I should
run screaming from ;) ). FWIW, I do not plan at
any time in the near future to change over to
Linux as the primary OS I use for everything
(though I suppose that could eventually change),
and I need Windows for compatibility with others
in the rest of the world. My primary need right
now is to run various (primarily scientific)
software packages for which there are no Windows
versions, so I am not looking for anything which
will take a lot of setting up before I can do
anything. OTOH, it would be nice to have as full
a set of capabilities as possible so when I have
the time and inclination I can expand the uses.
So, any recommendations?
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¹As I mentioned a few days ago when I was trying
to get these new hard drives installed, I have
the latest version (8.0) of Partition Magic and
the Boot Magic program which comes with it in
order to accomplish this (though I haven't set
them up that way yet), and I left 100GB on the
primary hard drive for a Linux partition, just in
case those facts are of significance . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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