On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:10:39 +0530, Anshul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 mostly or include a very outdated Nvidia driver which will most likely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?
> > >
> >
> >
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I would definitely recommend SimplyMepis. Especially if you want to
install the distro. One of the easiest to install distro. Has Qparted
for partitioning and adjusting partitions.
Sudeep
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