Re: suggested boot from cd linux

From: Algida (algida_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/10/05

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    Użytkownik "***** charles" <dagmara.gajewska@rup-elblag.dop.gdansk.pl>
    napisał w wiadomości news:119ji3kaakdksbb@corp.supernews.com...
    > "***** charles" <shultzjrX@joimail.com> wrote in message
    > news:119fhphstjnoe44@corp.supernews.com...
    > >
    > > "Chris" <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote in message
    > > news:d7711s$2dra$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
    > > > J.J. O'Shea wrote:
    > > > > I'd like to try out a few linux flavours and compare them to each
    > other,
    > > and
    > > > > to WinXP, and to Mac OS X. Ideally they should be able to boot from
    CD
    > > so
    > > > > that I don't have to reformat hard drives to test each one, and it'd
    > be
    > > nice
    > > > > if there are distributions from the same people for _both_ Intel and
    > PPC
    > > > > setups, (yes, I know, the exact same setup won't run on both, but
    does
    > > Yellow
    > > > > Dog for example have one version for Intel and another for PPC?) but
    > > what I
    > > > > want is to compare the _best_ available setups, even if it means
    doing
    > > some
    > > > > reformatting.
    > > > >
    > > >
    > > > AFAIK there aren't many PPC-enable linux distros. Only YDL, debian and
    > > > gentoo. The majority of the 'friendly' distros are i86 only :-(
    > >
    > > Ubuntu has install and live cd's for x86, x86-64, itanium and ppc I
    think.
    > >
    > > The install is pretty easy.
    > >
    > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org
    > >
    > > charles.......
    >
    > sorry, but they do not have an itanium version, they do have the other
    > three.
    >
    > later....
    >
    >

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