[wellylug] [Fwd: Distrowatch]

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

On Tuesday 05 Apr 2005 22:39, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
> > I had heard good things about Ubuntu, but then
> >
>  > heard/read install wasn't so easy for a newbie
>  > (like me). I gave ny CDs away because I was
>  > nervous about partitioning.  Is Kbuntu going
>  > to be easier for partitioning?  Using Mandrake
> >
> > 10.1 at present, dual boot with winXP.
>
> The two main forks are the Debian/apt fork and the
> RedHat/rpm fork. There are source forks, like Gentoo.
>
> Ubuntu belongs to the Debian fork.
>
> All installs of Linux require at least a Debian partition
> and a Debian swap partition. This reasonably straightforward
> and providing you have some space on your HDD, reasonably
> problem free.
>
> What do you have and what do you want to achieve? Have you
> already got a distro installed?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff

I have Mandrake 10.1 dual boot with WinXP (needed for family tree and 
scanner).  The Mandrake system has become messed up and unable to use USB 
card reader, which is important to me because camera not supported!
Waiting for 10.2 to do a clean install and start again, but wondering whether 
to swap to another distro instead.

regards
Rosemary