Another Debian based one with a slick install is Storm. And, with
some editing of sources.list, you install with Storm (or Corel, I
assume), and then update to the full Debian.
jeff
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Bruce McCulley wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Derek Martin wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Bill Freeman wrote:
> > >
> > > > A coworker has a Sony Vaio, and I'm going to help him set it
> > > > up to dual boot with Mandrake 7.0 (single CD that I picked up at the
> > >
> > > P.S. I would recommend you give him the latest and greatest of whatever
> > > distro you give him, just so that he has all the niceties that each new
> > > release brings... RH7.0 is out and all the feedback I've heard on it so
> > > far has been very positive. Also I believe the latest Mandrake is 7.1
> > >
> > > I'd recommend you stay away from Caldera and TurboLinux... I personally
> > > thought Caldera sucked and that seems to be the consensus; and while I
> > > have no experience with Turbo most of the people I talked to who did
> > > seemed to think it was trash too.
> > >
> > > Debian gets a lot of kudos here, but it's a bear to install as compared to
> > > some of the others.
> >
> > Interesting that Corel is Debian based and the install was about as slick
> > as it is possible to get.
>
> Corel is, in my experience, a dumbed-down, handicapped Debian. There
> are tons of things that it's missing... though I'd be hard-pressed to
> remember what. I'll give you that their installer is easy. I can't
> really say too much else about it since I was playing with corel on a
> pre-installed (by one of my coworkers) system, and I never did an install.
>
> They also do a lot of little, really annoying things. Like all of a
> sudden kde apps are now Corel apps. Grrr.
>
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