[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Anyone following the latest Microsoft and Linux debacles?

[Paul T. Barton]

Actually, Kanotix (a knoppix derative)
installs very easily, the easiest so far.
It comes "live" but installs to HD with
a single command. I use it.

Paul T Barton

--- "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:45, Kevin Diggs wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	Anyone know anything about debian?
> > 
> > 					kevin
> 
> It's the premier "community supported"
> distribution... they are
> absolutely committed to the principles of Free
> Software, and the distro
> is completely produced by volunteers.
> 
> It is a great stand-alone distro, which is how
> I use it. It is also the
> basis of
> 
> Knoppix
> Morphix
> Ubuntu
> Linspire
> Xandros
> 
> among others:
> http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
> 
> There are two main criticisms I hear about
> Debian:
> 
> A. It's hard to install
> B. Their stable distribution is old
> 
> For A., it can be tough. The installer is a
> simple command line driven
> installer. There is a new installer for the
> next version. Keep in mind
> that Debian has to run on a lot more
> architectures (X86, PowerPC, MIPS,
> 680x0, ARM, etc.) than most distros, so they
> keep the installer simple.
> The other thing is that once you install
> Debian, you don't reinstall it.
> It is designed to always be upgradeable to the
> next revision.
> 
> To B: the stable distribution (currently,
> Woody) is older, and only gets
> security bugfixes. But it really is stable. I
> use it to run my
> webserver. But for the desktop I use Debian
> Unstable (Sid) so I always
> run the latest and greatest of everything. I've
> found that apps in
> unstable rarely break, but it has happened here
> and there, with a fix
> usually within a week. You can always revert a
> prior release to resolve
> issues.
> 
> 
> -- John.
> 
> 
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