Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope

Carl Parrish plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
13 Jun 2003 04:44:49 -0700


I think that is like saying Mandrake is Redhat. I realize that Knoppix
is a debian based distro. But so are most of the *kewl* distros and I
have to say that Knoppix is *way* eaiser to install <g>. 

Carl P. 

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:21, Robert Wultsch wrote:
> Knoppix is debian!!! Just to be clear.
> 
> David Mandala wrote:
> 
> > Debian is on of the hardest versions of Linux to get correctly installed
> > and configured. Slackware is right up with it. For the most part the
> > Debian community is not too interested in ease of use vs fun to hack.
> > Also Debian's hardware detection is very poor as compared to other
> > distros, that is where Knoppix really shines.
> > 
> > Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE are more interested in ease of use. 
> > 
> > I run couple of Red Hat boxes, a Mandrake box, and a Debian box. I also
> > recently had the fun of installing Slackware for a day, it's gone now, I
> > decided not to continue with it.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Davidm
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 23:37, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> > 
> >>scripsit David Huerta:
> >>
> >>>Eh, somehow I get the impression you're not quite ready for Debian
> >>>yet.  We'll work on making you a h4rdc0r3 Linux user in the mean time.
> >>
> >>I realize you're not entirely serious, but I am curious why you would
> >>say someone would be `not quite ready for Debian yet' but might be for
> >>RH, for example.  Assuming one has recourse to support for figuring out
> >>the drivers to set up in the installation (or uses Knoppix to install?),
> >>I can't imagine why running a Debian desktop box would be any more of a
> >>trial for a new Linux user than any other distro...
> 
> 
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