I've been threatening to try Linux for a few years and just never did. However, I'll have the old system from the inlaws sitting here with a cheapo but good mobo, good processor etc, a good hard drive, and a fried drive I'd like to recover.
A recovery place noted I should try Linux [rather odd one here: windows will recognize the drive in hardware, but it has too many bad sectors or something for Windows to name it a drive]: Perfect excuse!
Didn't want to threaten the FAP with a download, so $5 on Ebay and Fedora is on its way!
Oh the choices!
With Ubuntu you're not remotely a rebel anymore, but not sure if something like Slackware would be too optimized and reduce chances on the drive recovery.....
Puppy [on a stick!], was very temping, but was too lazy to check whether anything I had around here would boot from a stick....
I hoped to stumble across a plain old version of Debian [perhaps a few years old] that might be simple enough yet to really optimize my chances of it recognizing that drive, but probably didn't look in the right places.....
So RedHat or SuSE, that way I could be somewhat intelligent in casual conversations with IT guys: a disk with Fedora [RedHat] was the first bootable/installable my Ebay search turned up from a seller with plenty of good feedback, so Fedora it is!
Now let's see how long before I get around to playing with it!
A recovery place noted I should try Linux [rather odd one here: windows will recognize the drive in hardware, but it has too many bad sectors or something for Windows to name it a drive]: Perfect excuse!
Didn't want to threaten the FAP with a download, so $5 on Ebay and Fedora is on its way!
Oh the choices!
With Ubuntu you're not remotely a rebel anymore, but not sure if something like Slackware would be too optimized and reduce chances on the drive recovery.....
Puppy [on a stick!], was very temping, but was too lazy to check whether anything I had around here would boot from a stick....
I hoped to stumble across a plain old version of Debian [perhaps a few years old] that might be simple enough yet to really optimize my chances of it recognizing that drive, but probably didn't look in the right places.....
So RedHat or SuSE, that way I could be somewhat intelligent in casual conversations with IT guys: a disk with Fedora [RedHat] was the first bootable/installable my Ebay search turned up from a seller with plenty of good feedback, so Fedora it is!
Now let's see how long before I get around to playing with it!