Bill Jonas on Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:16:55 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Suse Q


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.

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