From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Thursday 24 May 2012 01:08, Adam conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   >> We seem to be drifting onto "choosing a distro" here....   
   [...]   
   >>> Okay, so you've got room for...   
   >>>        ° Mandriva,   
   >>>        ° Mageia,   
   >>>        ° PCLinuxOS, and   
   >>>        ° openSUSE   
   >>> Those four seem the closest related.   
   >>   
   >> Well, it /may/ turn out that the best distro for me isn't related at   
   >> all, maybe Slackware or FreeBSD or something.   
   >   
   > Mind you that FreeBSD is not GNU/Linux.   
      
   I know; I gather that's about as far from Mandriva et al. as one can   
   get within FOSS *nix.  I just wanted to emphasize that I'm open to   
   trying something different with a learning curve, /if/ it turns out   
   to be the best choice for me.   
      
   > I'm assuming that someone who stuck with a particular   
   > distribution for so long as you have, and as most of us here have, will   
   > be most comfortable with a distribution that has roughly the same look&   
   > feel - by which I'm not talking of one's choice of desktop environment,   
   > but rather in how the distribution is organized and handled - and the   
   > same kind of reliability.   
      
   I tend to over-research, but this way I can try out other   
   distros/releases while keeping my current install intact so I can   
   research any problems I'm having with any of the others. :-)  Since   
   I have unlimited downloads (so far!), the only cost of getting other   
   distros is time (about 4 hours for a full DVD) and the small cost of   
   the DVDs to burn them to.  So far (while running Mandriva 2010.0),   
   I've downloaded Mandriva 2011, Mageia 2 (official release),   
   PCLinuxOS 2011.09, openSUSE 12.1, and out of curiosity Slackware   
   13.37, CrunchBang 10, and Debian 6.0.5 in progress (8 DVDs!).  I'll   
   also check out opinions online of all of those.  Offhand, would you   
   happen to know whether any of them prefer ext3 or ext4 for their   
   root partitions?  Or is ext4 already pretty much standard already?   
      
   Adam   
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