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[Sean Miller]

Greg Browne wrote:

><< KANOTIX is based on Debian Unstable (Sid) so is, potentially, even
>less supportable.>>
>
>but is an improved version of KNOPPIX, according to www.kanotix.com.
>
>Having tried Debian Sarge, KNOPPIX, SUSE, Novell Desktop and Mandrake,
>the only distro I found that would work consistently for me (very
>limited Linux knowledge) was Kanotix. It is easy to install to a hard
>drive, very simple to download programmes (oops, packages) through
>'klik' and 'synaptic package manager' and will do a web update
>relatively easily. It seems to run all my essential packages, mail,
>web, CD burner, sound recorder, O-Office, QCAD for CAD, Samba and I
>used ALSA (I think) to configure my sound card.
>  
>
I like Ubuntu, which I have now been using for almost a month with no 
problems... fantastic software repository too...

Sean