[SLUG] If it isn't broke, then don't fix it ? / or is the grass greener ?

[woz]

Hello Everyone,

I am a delighted Fedora 8 user, I read all the mail shots from the SLUG 
and do digging when 'things' don't work. The Java iced t works, flash 
works, I was delighted when I got my IPCHAINS to work so I can watch 
Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica when it is released on the torrents, my 
CD/DVD writing seems to work ok, I do my monthly budget on the CALC in 
open office. I use the Livna repositories and all in Linux is well, 
nothing is wrong....

This is my problem, alot of people I have been talking to keep raving 
about Debian - their spin seems to be that Debian is less tied in to 
'corporate' based linux distros so I was thinking about giving it ago - 
but I dont want to damage my Fedora 8 installation as I just have it 
running on one disk as a stand alone linux machine. My partition 
knowledge is fine if I want to run a dual boot XP/Linux or Linux only 
(which I do - it's been nearly a year without any Microsoft software on 
my machine !) The idea of running several different distros on one hard 
drive just confuses me - how would you get them GRUB to boot them ?

I thought now would be a good time to try different distros, as Fedora 9 
is due to be released next week and I feel I am starting to get 
confident with Fedora. Any suggestions or thoughts would be welcomed..

Many thanks in advance if anyone responds to this......
Woz


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> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:12:30 +0100
> From: Al Girling <al at gcguk.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: [SLUG] GnuPG business use
> To: "Scarb. LUG" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> Hi folks,
>
> This is for David really, but since it has been freely discussed hear I
> thought I'd post for all to see.
>
> I found this discussion in the gnupg-users mailing list archives:
>
> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2008-February/032597.html
>
> It contains some interesting points for you to consider.  You might
> regard advice from the likes of Werner Koch and David Shaw as being
> gospel, for Werner is the principal author of GnuPG and David a leading
> developer.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Al
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>