Ubuntu first time

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:17 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>If "so is Slack and Gentoo," then it's not nearly so clear what is a
>>better choice.
>
> I find that Slackware and CentOS (not Fedora) are the most well-behaved distros out there.  My horror stories of openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Mint, and Ubuntu are endless.
>     1. openSUSE which has the nasty habit of going around corrupting the boot sectors of other partitions.  Fedora only corrupts /dev/sda5.  Honestly, why does a distro care about what's in the other partitions?
>
>     2. Slackware and CentOS are the only one which I can install the bootloader in MBR or in root partition, and I can convert CentOS's GRUB into LILO which I have to do if I want both in MBR.  This is one reason why I want the bootloader in its own partition, and MBR should only ask you which partition you want to boot.
>
>     3. Over the weekend, I found that Ubuntu-11.10 can only be installed MBR and must be GRUB only.  I even can't convert it to LILO as I can with other distros.
>
> These so-called "open source" distros are incorporating more and more "vendor-lockin" features.

How can it conceivably be called "vendor lock-in" when all modern
Linux distributions support GRUB, which is generally agreed to be a
lot more flexible and powerful than LILO?

I'm not sure for how many years Slackware violated Donald Knuth's
copyrights; if you're looking for sins, you can certainly find some
there...
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