Ubuntu first time

[William Park]

Well, I dare anyone to setup 15 partitions, and install a distro into each partition.  You just have to make sure Slackware is first, and openSUSE last.


Since this thread is about Ubuntu, I see it loading kernel modules in GRUB config.  Why?  What's wrong with initrd?  Pretty soon, you're going to see Emacs at the sector 0.

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William



----- Original Message -----
> From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at gmail.com>
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 4:52:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Ubuntu first time
> 
> 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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