[Liverpool] Advice

[Richard Smedley]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 21:38 +0000, Sujita Purushothaman wrote:
> Has anyone here tried Puppy Linux or Xubuntu?

We use both at work. XUbuntu on boxes we give to
socially-excluded families, who seem remarkably
happy with the software. Puppy to turn thin clients
with a bit of flash ROM into fast demonstration
and training boxes.

XUbuntu is an Ubuntu- (and hence Debian-) based
distro. Thus easily maintainable, expandable, and
upgradable, with a repository of circa 20,000
packages.

Puppy is a specialist distro, in a choice of
sizes, which cannot be so easily changed or
expanded - but it is *blisteringly* fast ;)

btw Copy the working xorg.conf file from your
Knoppix boot-up, and the output of dmesg and
lsmod, so that you have some clues if you
have a problem with the hardware during your 
installation of Debian, Puppy, or watever you
settle on.

 - Richard

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