Chris Knadle wrote:
Now the fun part is deciding which distros to try out on it -- I
think I can shoehorn four distros (plus WinXP and separate data
partition) onto its 60 GB HD. I'm most familiar with Mandriva and
have no particular objections to it but think it would be
interesting to try some others. Suggestions welcome, anybody!
If I were to make a "test Desktop" to try several Linux distros I
guess I'd probably install distros that I had technical interests in.
Probably along the lines of:
Debian and/or Ubuntu
Fedora
Gentoo
Arch
Sabayon
Puppy
Vector
Damn Small
Nexenta
OpenBSD
For further ideas see http://distrowatch.com
Thanks, Chris. I also found lists of distros on
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html and http://lwn.net/Distributions/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions . There
are a lot of them out there! I started with Mandriva (the one I know
best), Puppy, Slackware, and Absolute. I've already replaced Puppy with
Ubuntu, and will probably be replacing Slackware and Absolute once I get
the new power supply installed. I have OpenBSD downloaded already but
not installed because I've heard it can be a real challenge. Does
anyone else want to recommend any distros they find interesting? Thanks
in advance!
BTW it looks like a 10 GB partition is enough for each distro, at least
on my test system. I also created an ext3 data partition that will
eventually be mounted as ~/common under all the distros, for things like
downloads and documents. This way all the hidden config files will stay
under ~ in their respective distributions, in case I have different
versions of the same program installed under different distros.
Adam
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