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Alex Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 03:46:45 UTC, Steve Wendt<spamsux@forgetit.org>  wrote:
>
>>>>> some versions of Linux don't get along well with other operating
>>>>> systems).
>>>
>>> I have seen reports that Ubuntu is not entirely friendly.
>>
>> Got any links?  I'm curious to know what the complaints are.  There's no
>> reason for it to be any worse than other distros.
>
> The volume of complaints with Ubuntu may have more to do with it being
> such a common Linux distro, rather than the problems being with Ubuntu
> specifically.
>
> That said, I think the most common complaint was that Ubuntu makes it
> harder than usual to install GRUB to the boot partition (which is
> necessary in order to play nice with Boot Manager) instead of to the
> MBR.

Ubuntu has improved in this respect, now giving a choice where to 
install grub. Even before when it insisted on putting grub in the mBR it 
wouldn't have been bad if Ubuntu had done the right thing and added Boot 
Manager to the grub menu.

>
> Whatever Ubuntu uses for its partitioning software has also been
> observed to do some very nasty things to the disk layout from OS/2's
> perspective.  OTOH, that's always been something of a problem with
> Linux-based partitioning tools, at least the ones which trace their
> ancestry back to the old 'fdisk'.
>

I tried to install the latest Ubuntu, being very careful to do all my 
partitioning ahead of time. It still did something nasty to my partition 
tables.
Dave

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Re: advice on hardware purchase Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-02-07 20:43 -0800
  Re: advice on hardware purchase Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-02-09 19:50 -0800
    Re: advice on hardware purchase "Andy" <nospam-abwillis1-nopspam@nospam-gmail.com> - 2011-02-10 15:29 +0000
  Re: advice on hardware purchase Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-02-11 07:22 -0800
  Re: advice on hardware purchase Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-02-11 23:30 +0000
  Re: advice on hardware purchase Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-02-10 20:22 -0800
    Re: advice on hardware purchase "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-02-11 03:15 -0500
    Re: Whither LVM replacement? "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-02-11 21:15 -0600
    Re: advice on hardware purchase Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-02-11 23:03 +0000
    Re: advice on hardware purchase Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-02-11 07:18 -0800
    Re: advice on hardware purchase "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-02-11 01:30 -0600
      Re: Whither LVM replacement? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-02-11 22:27 +0000
  Re: advice on hardware purchase "Andy" <nospam-abwillis1-nopspam@nospam-gmail.com> - 2011-02-09 22:55 +0000
  Re: advice on hardware purchase "Dave Saville" <dave@invalid.invalid> - 2011-02-09 11:45 +0000
  Re: advice on hardware purchase "Andy" <nospam-abwillis1-nopspam@nospam-gmail.com> - 2011-02-09 16:02 +0000
    Re: advice on hardware purchase "Frank Beythien" <Nospam-2011@efbe.prima.de> - 2011-02-09 17:07 +0000
  Re: advice on hardware purchase Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-02-10 18:51 +0000
  Re: advice on hardware purchase Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-02-09 07:41 -0800
  Re: advice on hardware purchase "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-02-09 08:43 -0600
  Re: advice on hardware purchase "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@Use-Author-Supplied-Address.invalid> - 2011-02-08 22:39 +0000
    Re: advice on hardware purchase Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-02-08 19:46 -0800

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