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Personally I steer well clear from Fedora Core. The reason or that, simply put, is that Fedora Core is, according to RedHat, their testbed for products before they're released into the RedHat Enterprise distro : "A proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products," and is used for "Developer or highly technical enthusiast using Linux in non-critical computing environments".
That means, essentially, you're testing potentially unstable products for RedHat. Some people like this, and it certainly has its advantages and is of great benefit to the Linux community at large, but it's not a great idea for a production machine. RedHat even says so on their web site:http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/ read down the rightmost column, representing FC.
Of course the argument can be made that ALL Linux distributions are like that at least in some way...
Mandriva (the Linux formerly known as Mandrake) is dead easy to install and use. If you're new to Linux I'd suggest Mandriva.
I can say that at least slightly unbiased because I don't use either, I'm a Slacker.
Last edited by michaelsanford; 08-28-2005 at 02:56 PM.
Originally posted by aysiu You could even triple-boot Fedora, Mandrake, and Windows. That way you get the full experience. I triple-boot Mepis, Ubuntu, and Windows.
OK...........but how would I go about that..........create another ext3 partition and install fedora to that..........then how would the bootmanager handle that..........Lilo.
And also how do I change what is in the boot manager.......
List:
Linux
Linux...nob or something
Fail safe
Windows
Windows safe mode
How do I change the order of what starts up first and what Items are there............would like to have
I don't know much about Lilo. Both Mepis and Ubuntu use Grub.
In fact, even when I installed Mandriva, I used Grub.
Basically, I resized my Windows partition with QTParted.
Then, I created a partition for Mepis and a partition for Ubuntu.
I installed Mepis on one partition, installing Grub to that partition instead of the Master Boot Record.
Then, I installed Ubuntu, which recognized both my Mepis and Windows partitions, and I installed Grub on the MBR.
Then, the Grub menu had Ubuntu as the default OS, Mepis as the second, and Windows as the third.
To edit the boot order or the default OS, I would edit (as root) the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and change default from 0 to 1 (or 0 to 2).
(Well, that's what I did originally. Since then, I've done considerably resizing and repartitioning, but that's another story.)
That's Grub, though. I don't know much about Lilo. I would imagine it's something similar.
I also have the option of using Grub..........it just used Lilo by default.
So basically what you are saying is that "creat another partition and install the 3rd OS and use the boot loader from that OS, it will see the two other automatically........and thats it triple booting" ?? or did I miss something
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