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Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE - Turbolinux 6
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 04:35:45 GMT
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 04:18:31 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> But a key point in the linux world is: the bit that as to be within the
> first 1024 cylinders is the beginning of the kernel. That means that if your
> kernel is on a partition that spans that boundary, it'll probably work right
> away, 'cause when it got installed, it probably happened pretty early on.
> But then, if you upgrade your kernel ever, suddenly your machine won't boot.
Hrmmm...
> FWIW, Red Hat (and Mandrake and other RH-derived distros) ships with i386,
> i586, and i686 kernels, in single proc and SMP flavors. It just picks which
> to install automatically.
Yeah, I hadn't ever installed RH (and Mandrake won't install here) on
a dual processor system, so I didn't get to see it pick.
My buddies and I are looking to colocate a custom box we're going to
build at a local ISP. Mainly playing with Linux distros right now to
figure out which one we want to go with.
> > Gonna put an old 6 gig drive in my test machine (K62-233) tonight and
> > put Mandrake on it. I figure I'll limit my dual celeron system to one
> > distro anyway, since I want to use it to run vmware and multiple
> > Win2k/WinNT setups. Maybe even Netware. ;)
>
> You know, if you want to play with distros, VMware works really well for
> that....
Yeah, almost seems weird, though, running one Linux inside another.
Much more weird than running something by MS inside Linux, for some
weird reason...
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| (...) I really like Red Hat, largely because they're extremely good about putting out quick security fixes. (Debian is really good at this too.) And they're generally a well put-together, solid system. I'm running Mandrake on my desktop right now, (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I'm not sure how MSWin deals with this.... not my field. :) But a key point in the linux world is: the bit that as to be within the first 1024 cylinders is the beginning of the kernel. That means that if your kernel is on a partition that (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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