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Do any of you use other distros just for the tools?

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Like for instance. GParted is bugged and is broken when it comes to certain functions of partitioning. So while I was trying distros out. I noticed one distro had a special set of pertationing tools. (or they were special to me) This distro was OpenSUSE. I don't really like the way OpenSUSE is structured too much but I got a 11.2 beta liveCD just for the partitioning tools because I feel they're top notch and free. They did what I needed where gparted failed me. If you're going to tinker around get an 11.2 (beta) liveCD because they fixed the minor bugs that were in 11.1. (didn't calculate the max partition size slightly so it didnt max out the space it could resize the partition in 11.1 <left like 300MB unformatted on my several hundred gig drive>) So are there any distros you use just for the tools it comes with? I'd like to hear your experiences. as I said I'm not a fan of OpenSUSE; just the tools (HowTos)

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