| Bill Jonas on Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:16:55 -0500 |
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:53:13PM -0500, kaze wrote: > Would Suse be the best distro to be running when physically in > Germany? Personally, I'd think so. > Do they do German localized Linux better than other distros? Anecdotally, I've heard that this is the case. And they even have German-language mailing lists, if that sort of thing is important to him. > Is any one distro better than another insofar as IDEs for Python? Well, the top-end version of SuSE comes with 7 (or so) CDs (or one DVD with everything so you don't have to sit and swap CDs), so I'd imagine that they have *something* on there. ;) In all seriousness, as far as what userspace software you can install on it, they'd be pretty much all the same; the major difference would be how convenient it is to install. (ie, Do they provide a nice package or do you have to compile it yourself?) I can't imagine SuSE being too far from the top in this regard. > Also any recommendations on boot loaders? I think staying with the W2K > bootloader might be the best in terms of upsetting his native support staff, > but does anyone have any thoughts on LILO v. Grub v. that one new OSS one > that went by on /. recently? Well, even if you use the W2K bootloader, you'll still need a Linux bootloader installed in your Linux partition. I haven't used GRUB all that much, but I've heard good things about it. One advantage is that you don't have to run it after you install a new kernel image or modify its conf file like you do with LILO. Anyhow, you might want to take a look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/mini.html; there are several documents there covering multi-boot configurations. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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