[wellylug] [Fwd: Distrowatch]

[Rosemary McGillicuddy]

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:55:24 +1200
Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:

> Martin Bähr wrote:
> > 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)
> >
> The reason that I called them "forks" was because it was easier
> than saying "a bunch of distros using the same packaging 
> system"!

I understood what was meant ...
> 
> You are technically correct, and I maybe should have chosen 
> a different term.
> > 
> >>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.
> >
> Yes, I made a mistake.

Again - I understood what was meant, as I was asking a question about partitioning in a debian based distro compared with Mandrake ..
>  >
> > 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.

And that's the bit that scares me - that I might make a mistake and end up with access to nothing.
> > 
> > greetings, martin.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff

regards
Rosemary
> 
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