Debian WAS KDE based live cd

[Dazed_75]

FYI my USB sticks are recognized, mounted and opened by Ubuntu 6.10 which
may not BE Debian Etchy, but I believe uses a lot of it.

On 12/20/06, JT Moree <moreejt at pcxperience.com> wrote:
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> Empty wrote:
> > All of these are the same example- Debians FOSS-only policy in action.
> > http://www.us.debian.org/intro/free
> >
> > With a Debian machine you have to willfully choose to go outside the
> > realm of FOSS.
>
> Which is part of my point.  Another part being that with other distros
> that process is easier if you so choose to do so.
>
> How about a NON Debian policy example.
>
> USB sticks and automatically showing up when plugged in:  I haven't used
> etch so I don't know how much progress has been made on this front
> lately but most other distros setup hotplug and udev to make this work a
> long time ago.  (Has Debian even moved to udev yet?  They had just
> gotten devfs into the installer 2 yrs ago when the kernel developers
> deprecated it.)
>
> Sarge CAN do auto-mount of usb if I spend a lot of time fixing it after
> figuring out what to install myself (again typical of a debian
> installation).  Last I tried it didn't work after an hour of tweaking.
>
> Let me re-affirm, Debian is in the right to work this way.  I'm not
> against it.  Debian does not install and configure a ton of extra stuff
> because as a developer I want to pick and choose what gets installed.
> Have anyone done a minimal install of Fedora lately?  It weighs in at
> over 800M on FC5.  A miminal Debian install is something like 50M.
>
> I can come up with all sorts of reasons for why I think Debian is for
> developers and end users should start with another distro but these are
> all just my opinion.  Everyone should use what works for them.
> - --
> JT Morée
> PC Xperience, Inc.
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