[Novalug] Re: CentOS/Ubuntu

[RogerB]

On Wed,  2 Jan 2008 16:04:54 -0500 (EST), novalug-request at calypso.tux.org
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>    8. Re: CentOS/Ubuntu (Kevin Cole)
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> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:04:39 -0500
> From: "Kevin Cole" <dc.loco at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] CentOS/Ubuntu
> To: Beartooth <karhunhammas at lserv.com>
> Cc: Novalug <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
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> On Jan 1, 2008 1:48 PM, Beartooth <karhunhammas at lserv.com> wrote:
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>>         I'm thinking I ought to give Ubuntu another try, at least
>> briefly -- and if so, on the same testbed machine as CentOS.

I was triple booting for awhile on a laptop - comparing varieties of Linux
(Win XP is there too). I settled on Ubuntu after comparing SuSE, Debian,
Ubuntu, Knoppix.

CAVEAT for dual boot Linux: if the kernel gets updated, as happened with
SuSE after I had installed Ubuntu in another partition, Grub threw an error
message that it could not find SuSE. That's because Ubuntu took command
and, of course, SuSE didn't know about that. The fix was to learn more
about Grub and edit Ubuntu's menu.txt to point to the correct version of
the kernel for SuSE. Problem solved.

Of course, with Ubuntu, you don't really need to install it to do a quick
trial: just boot it from CD and give it a fling. That works for me,
including wireless, etc.

SWAP: you can use the same partition for the swap file for one, two, . . .
x installs / versions of Linux.

/roger