Currently I have Fedora and Windows XP installed. I need recommendations on a second distro to install on same hdd as Fedora.
Mahalo.
Edward
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Currently I have Fedora and Windows XP installed. I need recommendations on a second distro to install on same hdd as Fedora.
Mahalo.
Edward
Well, what are you looking for?
Take a look at the top 10 distros (according to DistroWatch.com):
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
That page has descriptions of those 10 distros, and there are about 390 more to choose from (available from the main page) if you don't like any of those.
Gentoo or Ubuntu make nice distros for any user. If you want a Fedora-like distro, then get Ubuntu, if you want more of a "power user" one, try Gentoo.
i'd try mepis or some other light KDE based since you already have the gnome based Fedora. just for somethign different.
Why don't you try using your extra partition as a test patition, play with a distro, wipe it, and play with another...you may even change main distros...all of them have strong and weak points, plus many on this forum and I really like to test drive various distros
i would have to agree try a KDE based distro like MEPIS or perhaps if u want a more full featured distro try SuSE Mandriva is a fine distro damn small linux is good if your woried about space but like said before go to www.distrowatch.org for more info
I did this for a month or two, and it was wonderful! I highly recommend this approach if you have a fast internet connection and a CD burner. You start the ISO download before going to sleep, burn it the next day and install it on your "trial partition."Quote:
Originally Posted by genesus
If you know exactly what you want on your distro, and is not afraid of CUI, then I would advice you to test out debian, gentoo, arch and freebsd (thought it's not linux, it's neat ;)). I would say gentoo is the most customizable when it comes to USE-flags and such, arch is the minimalist and most customizable and fastest of the binary distros (with a package manager very easy once you get an explenation). Ubuntu is an install for debian, preconfigured and default-packages chosen for you, and a lot of peaple seems to like it, so you might try that aswell. Fedora used to be my favourite in the beginning, however I don't like the fact that they patch away MP3-support and similar. I never really installed suse, just tried the livecd's... Mandriva used to be my favourite after leaving fedora behind (10.1 community edition), and it's still user-friendly and such if thats what youre after.
Maybe a BSD like FreeBSD, come to the other side... :twisted: