desktop dilemma

[Guilderson, Tom W.]

Go for it!

My recommendation is to create a seperate partition where you keep all of
your own data so that if you do decide to install another distro etc. you
keep that mount point and do not reformat the partition. Done it several
times and my home directory has never changed!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Peterson [mailto:ron.peterson at yellowbank.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:03 PM
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: desktop dilemma
> 
> 
> I don't deserve it, but I just got a (nice) new desktop computer at
> work.  I'm having a hard time deciding whether I want to install RH or
> Debian for my desktop OS.  Or...
> 
> I'm more familiar with RH.  It's what I first started with.  I haven't
> used Debian much at all.  I just installed it on a backup news server,
> though, and plan to get more familiar with it.  I.E. I pretty 
> much know
> what I'm getting with RH, and I'm not so sure with Debian.
> 
> I'm kind of thinking I'd like to try using Debian.  My dilemma (?) is
> that I'd like to take full advantage of my spanking new shiny 
> hardware. 
> Perhaps this is possible with Debian, I just don't know.
> 
> One of the alleged advantages of using Debian is that once installed,
> staying up to date is easy.  One of my primary questions is, once you
> start installing things outside of the stable branch, are you
> potentially eliminating that advantage?  If, say, I installed XFree86
> 4.x, KDE 2.0, 2.4 kernel, etc., will I have a difficult time 
> reconciling
> my installation with the stable branch, once it catches up?
> 
> Suse also piques my interest.  Why would I want/not want to 
> convert from
> RH to Suse?
> 
> I just have one HDD (for now), and I've had to reserve a couple of
> partitions for unmentionable objectives, so "both" is not an 
> option.  I
> do have a secondary desktop currently running RH7.0/2.4, so I 
> guess I'm
> kind of leaning towards Debian, unless someone tells me my progressive
> ways will lead me to ruin.
> 
> -Ron-
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