[Gllug] Debian useless

[Mark Preston]

Debian hopeless, and now useless Garry.
Is this new rating an improvement?
  Knoppix is based on Debian unstable/testing so when you apt-get you 
are likely to get problems (when compared to using stable). This can be 
dealt with to some extent by altering /etc/apt/sources.list to only get 
stable updates. Or you could use Gnoppix which is based on stable 
Debian.Then you'll probably be complaining that you only get the Gnome 
desktop environment, not KDE.
  FWIW I've never managed to install Debian and get everything working 
(like X for instance), but I recognize that it's my lack of knowledge 
that's the problem, not Debian as a distribution.
  Knoppix uses Red Hat's kudzu hardware detection routine, I believe, so 
it is a good example of the virtues and benefits of open-source and free 
software.
Regards,
Mark Preston



Garry Heaton wrote:

 >> Use Knoppix, it's bootable for a quick demo, it's installable, it's 
 >>debian based so when it IS installed you can do all the apt-gettery
 >> stuff and it's excellent at hardware config...

 >Yes, I really like Knoppix but I heard the resulting install is 
 >non-standard
 >in some way and doesn't always play nicely with apt-get repositories. 
 >Anyone have anything to add on this?


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