Having tried Knoppix and SimplyMepis, I would recommend Simplymepis over Knoppix for a first time demo. Thats just based on the arbitrary sample of arbitrary responses I got after arbitrary demos to arbitrary people! :P
I use Knoppix for recovery, SimplyMepis for demos and there are 2 trivial pitfalls I did like to warn you of. First avoid Nvidia graphic cards. Nvidia drivers arent open and these live cds avoid it mostly or include a very outdated Nvidia driver which will most likely give you headaches during the demo. Second, dont let them ever put a vcd with a "avesq*.dat" file on it in your cd rom. Old media players just dont like 'em. Try some mpeg on the hdd (at your own risk for such things usually have surprising contents ;-) ) These are the 2 major things that have sprung up to haunt me during my small live cd demo experiennce. YMMV Anshul On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:33:13 -0800 (PST), Arindam Basu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of the choices, I used SUSE, MEPIS, and Knoppix, with > a view of loading them to my hard drive (this was for > a laptop with AMDK6-Duron Processor, with 128 MB RAM, > and on a free partition with dual booting (my other OS > is Win XP professional). > > I liked all three, and for demo, each one worked well. > Eventually, I found SimplyMepis (flavor of MepisLinux, > based on Debian) easiest to install on the hard drive > from the live CD. The good thing is, considering this > is based on Debian, the install is simple and hassle > free. It still lets you make choices - downside being > it has KDC as default, does not have Gnome, but > hopefully you can download and change that once you > set up your system. However, the latest version of > MepisLinux come with both Gnome and KDE as desktop > managers, so that issue is taken care of now. I found > Mepis Linux is also easy to use following > installation. In my opinion, Mepis Linux could be a > good choice for a new user who's moving from Windows > to Linux through the dual booting track. > > My Rs. 0.02, > > /Arindam > > > --- Manas Laha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Folks, > > > > I am planning to introduce to Linux a bunch of > > people yet innocent of > > it. One of the things I am thinking of doing is to > > give them a live-cd > > distribution of Linux to play with. I have the > > following live-cds from LFY: > > > > 1. Slackware Live 9.1 > > 2. FreeDuc-CD 1.4 > > 3. Knoppix 3.6 (also 3.3) > > 4. Suse Linux 9.1 Live > > 5. MEPIS Linux > > > > of which I intend to give copies of any one CD only. > > The question is, > > which one? > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig, so i stole someone else's. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
