[Sussex] Partitioning reshuffle + Possible Distro Change (maybe)?

[Thomas Adam]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:42:28PM +0100, John D. wrote:
> My main issue, would be that it doesn't matter how many times I've
> tried, I can't get used to gnome, so that would take Ubuntu out of
> the equation. I understand that there is a KDE version of Ubuntu
> available (Kubuntu ???), but having not had any experience of it, I'd

As a live CD, Kubuntu uses KDE primarily, yes.  But Ubuntu pure has both
GNOME, KDE and the rest of the gang.

> I understand that Knoppix is a bit of a mongrel mix of debian testing
> and unstable, so is that likely to be a major issue i.e. changing
> the apt-sources so that it can see both testing and unstable causing
> problems with upgrades and installs ??

See here [1].

> In any event, I can always just re-install the gentoo, but think that
> it might be good for the learning to have another crack at debian -
> though not "proper" debian, given how rubbish I am when it comes to
> doing things CLI/manually.

There's no real difference, John.

-- Thomas Adam

 [1] http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/KnoppixDebian

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