>From a thread on the Linux Thinkpad Mailing List. I can shrug it off, but I thought you should know 8| ------- Start of forwarded message -------
From: Michelle Klein-Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:33:53 -0800 Subject: Re: [ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:35:20 -0800, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: >> > >> >BTW, I've looked a Knoppix for learning Linux and like the fact that >> >you boot from the CD and it works with almost any of the filetypes >> >out there (FAT32, NTFS and ext3). >> > >> >James McKenzie >> >> Knoppix also works as an easier installer for Debian Linux than the >> standard Debian text-mode installer. Since the Prodigy Installer > >Knoppix is not a Debian installer. If you use it, you don't have a >Debian system, but a Knoppix system. It is based on Debian, but >contains a lot of packages which are not present in the official Debian >(e.g. KDE, XFree86 any many more). If you install some updates from the >official Debian mirrors, you end up with a system which is neither a >Debian nor a Knoppix. > >Regards, >Tino >-- >The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: >http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad It might not be 100% Debian Pure, but the Knoppix disk install certainly works for me. Also, apt-get is seamless...the German sources get me anything I want without dependency hell. Christ, I don't know why Debianistas are so fsckn fanatical...not only do they call it GNU/Linux, they don't believe that anything other than the officially installed Debian *is* Debian. Let me guess, you don't think that Libranet is Debian either? :( Bloody fanatics... -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Tony
