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

[John D.]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 08:04 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks for the link Thomas - I'm gonna do a bit more digging before I
actually "go for it" one way or the other.

If I was to make an apt-sources list that had both testing and unstable,
is it the case of it would go for unstable if nothing is available in
testing and/or vice versa?

Or is that likely to cause apt to get confused and screw things up ??

Knoppix is still the front runner you see, because last time I had a go
at that, it recognised all my hardware, and as I've read of a few minor
problems both here on the list and at other places (LQ, etc etc) I feel
that I'd be "safer???" going down that route.

regards

John D.