[luau] Re: Which Distribution To Go With

[Yuser]

I just converted one of my kids computers from Debian to Fedora.  
Well, not really 
Debian but a HD install of Knoppix which is almost Debian.  The computer 
is only a P200/192MB ram.  Very slow in this day and age but Debian with 
KDE worked fine and very close to the the same responsiveness that his 
existing Win98 install had (with the exception of OO which I removed, 
Abiword is adequate for him).  Not so for the Fedora install using Gnome.  
I does work but is very slow, barely useable.  Seems stable though so far.  
I know this is very old equipment and I am just sharing my results.

On a side note..  Debian is on /dev/hda1 and Fedora on /dev/hda5.  I am 
not familier with Grub but I can no longer boot from the Debian partition.  
I tried several things with the the Grub configuration based on what I 
could pull out of the Debian lilo.conf after I mounted the Debian 
partition within Fedora.  The furthest I've got so far is a chain loader 
error when attemting to boot Debian.  I 
know this is VERY vague but any help would be taken!   

  

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, John Johnson wrote:

> I appreciate all the input you all have given. I think I will try out
> the Fedora project over debian for now. I am used to RH9 and that alone
> may make it worth doing. I was planning to set up a newer, faster box,
> so I don't mind the reinstall and reconfiguring. I was a little
> disappointed that RH ditched the free community. I just hope Fedora
> finds roots and doesn't disappear should RH become fickle again and it's
> corporate sponsoring of Fedora dries up in the future. I can't really
> complain, since it's free, but even when I thought, "What the heck, I
> can shell out a couple hundred bucks if I HAVE to and buy it", I went to
> RH's site and the STARTING price was $349. Ouch. Oh well. I'll buy into
> Fedora. Thanks guys!
> 
> --John
> 
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