If the aim is to not confuse people, I don't think Knoppix would be the way to go other than as a demonstration tool. The fact that personal settings and hardware configurations can't be saved between reboots would be quite confusing to someone who's seeking out the merits of a new operating system. It seems that only an advanced Linux user could make actual productive use of that distribution, being that he'd have to come up with work-arounds for the inconveniences of a read-only system.
Dustin Puryear wrote: > I am on the other side of the fence. I am thinking of the patrons that > will be accessing this stuff. Most will have little information about > Linux. I think we should focus more on distributions like Knoppix that > don't require a dedicated PC. Also, I think for now we need to keep > this limited to two or three distributions. After running the program > for a bit we will know how every works and then be able to expand. In > fact, this is one of the reasons why I ended up taking a more active > role in the project--everything was at a stand-still in large part > because we were looking at doing too much too soon. At least, that's > what I saw happening. I think we should stay small and targeted at > first and then see how everything works out. No rush. > > We need to get a general consensus on this. > > Regards, Dustin > > At 11:29 AM 8/28/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >> I was thinking about the distributions we should include. Redhat is >> practically a given since I think everyone interested in Linux and > > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
