[ltp] Preferred distro for Thinkpads?

Mauro Maroni linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:05:14 -0300 (ART)


If you want to learn more about Linux, I believe the best choice is 
Gentoo.


On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Jaime Iniesta wrote:

> No, I'm not in experimental stage, just in learning stage :-)
> 
> I've been using Fedora Core for several months, now it's time to try another 
> distro. I chose Ubuntu this time. I'll use it for several months and then 
> try another one. Let's call it slow-motion experimental stage.
> 
> Jaime!
> 
> 
> 2005/8/19, prosolutions@gmx.net <prosolutions@gmx.net>:
> > 
> > >
> > > Thanks everybody, I'm happy with FC4 despite the fact it takes 2 minutes 
> > to
> > > start on my PC, due to all the services it starts at boot time.
> > >
> > > I'll try Debian on the Thinkpad, not because I'm not happy with FC4, but
> > > because I want to try another distro, just to learn about it.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Sounds like you're in an experimental stage and it might be best to have
> > two or even three OSes installed on your system. Just partition it and
> > install several. They can share the same swap partition. You could
> > even do something like install Xen with NetBSD as dom0 and various
> > Linuxes as guest domains.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > 
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