[wellylug] [Fwd: Distrowatch]

Martin Bähr mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Apr 9 09:46:41 NZST 2005


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:39:02PM +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> The two main forks are the Debian/apt fork and the 
> RedHat/rpm fork. There are source forks, like Gentoo.

i would not call them forks (nothing is being forked here)
but packaging systems, but otherwise that's basically correct
(not counting slackware, foresight and a few others who have yet other
packaging systems)

> All installs of Linux require at least a Debian partition 
> and a Debian swap partition.

that sounds just wrong. there is no such thing as a debian partition or
debian swap partition. the partitions have filesystems on them, those
filesystems are the same accross all distributions. likewise with swap.
linux partition and linux swap partition are the terms to be used here.

partitioning is the same across all variants of linux.

what is different is which tools are offered to you to do the
partitioning. some are better than others, some are easier and ask less
information and don't give you the feeling that you might make a mistake.

greetings, martin.
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