Alan Dayley wrote:
| Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote:
|
|> What about knoppix??? I am apt-get right now from a knoppix install.
|
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| knoppix is a custom mix of Debian stable and test and unstable or
| whatever, if I recall correctly. (See, I'm not a Debian guy so I have
| only a cursory understanding of Debian's release trees.)
|
| Anyway, this mix can make apt-get tricky. If that is so, I would
| recommend knoppix for a CD based distro but not for a newbie hard disk
| install.
|
| These conclusions of mine are based on what I remember being bantered
| about in this list. I am wearing asbestos so I can take a correction if
| I am wrong.
I think if you are going to do an install it's better to use Debian than
Knoppix. Knoppix is great for CD demo, but is more cumbersome to
maintain day to day as it wasn't designed to work that way. Not that it
can't, you just might have to fight more issues than a standard Debian
install.
- -Derek
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