On 4/22/05, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/21/05, JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Bob Therina wrote: > > | I tried the Ubuntu live CD and half of it didn't work for me either. I > > | didn't get what all the big fuss was about. > > > > Let me take a stab at this one. When Ubuntu came out last year it > > seemed to be all over the press. So after a while I started checking > > into it. > > > > I think the big deal has more to do with Debian's problems than with any > > Debian based distro's merits. > > You may want to give NetBSD a try. Believe it or not NetBSD is a > dream to run. pkgsrc is very easy to use and binaries are leased on a > quarterly basis To install Gnome for instance do: > > pkg_add > ftp://ftp2.us.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q1/NetBSD-2.0/i386/All/gnome-2.8.3.tgz > > and pkgsrc will walk the dependency tree. > > The latest ISO is here: > ftp://ftp2.us.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/2.0.2/ > > The live eval CD is here: > ftp://ftp2.us.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/2.0/i386live.iso > > NetBSD 2.0.2 also has binary packages for OpenOffice 1.1.4 and Kde 3.3.2 > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > http://www.cwelug.org/ > [email protected] > http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug > Thanks Jon, I'll download the live CD and check it out. I'm running Debian right now and everything has been going fine so, I don't want to do any experimenting with the real McCoy until the semester is over.
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