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After I spent some time thinking about what i heard from you in the last W2L preparation meeting regarding installation distro i think that we should consider using Knoppix3.4 because of the following reasons: * Knoppix3.4 has the best automatic hardware detection abilities I've ever seen. * Captive-NTFS installer * can be remastered by us to change whatever we like (bookmarks, desktop, hebrew, fonts, iwiz, whatever). * easy to use, graphical harddisk installer. * Kernel 2.6.6 * After reading in the Knoppix.net forums, i noticed that most SATA problems were solved, only a few users still had problems and mostly because they chose 2.4 kernels or used old Knoppix versions. * Installation process is VERY fast. * Only one CD needed. * You can test the hardware support before you install it. * It's a live CD which is usable for other stuff too and good to have around. I know some of you said that Debian is not a good distro for n00bs but the facts are: * few of my friends who were total linux n00bs were able to install knoppix and they are very happy with the results. * My first distro was RedHat, but it never made me "fall in love" with linux, Mandrake did. but Mandrake never made me abandon M$ for good. Debian did. * Just a few days ago i helped a friend who installed RH9 for unknown reason, he said it's yucky and "doesn't feel good" but after "just a few" hours of configuring, setting Hebrew, getting rid of the ugly "Curve" theme, updating to KDE3.2.3 and setting it as default Desktop, he was VERY happy with his new Desktop and started asking me "migration" questions :) ^^^ too much work ^^^ I know some of you might say RH is the "standard" and maybe we should consider providing an option to choose between Fedora or Knoppix installation. You may agree or disagree with me but I intend to create a new "Kazit" version anyway during this summer, based on knoppix3.4 since my Morphix remasters seems to be less stable for now so you have time to decide. Morphix remasters (KaziX, MiniKazit) are "easy to work with" and maintain (for me) and i can create a remaster in a matter of few hours, but it seems (at least for me) that there are still many installation problems (usually silly Grub setting problems), and a few hardware support problems, which Knoppix seems to deal with just fine. Regards, Shlomi Loubaton. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
