On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:51:59AM -0500, George Metz scribbled:
> I strongly recommend, if you have the bandwidth and a CD burner, that you
> download and try Progeny Debian (ftp or http at archive.progeny.com) for a
> go. It's based off of a fairly recent snapshot of Woody, and while
> somewhat bleeding edge - glibc 2.2, 2.4.x kernel options, XFree 4.0.2,
> etc. - the install is simply amazing. I did the Custom install for
> Progeny. It was exceedingly straightforward. It gave me a fair amount of
> options.
>
> And it was easier than installing Windows with default settings. I kid you
> not.
Does it ask you ten trillion questions after installing, like Debian
does?
That's one thing that stops me from using Debian as my main OS.
> I'm not sure if the installer is part of Woody, or if it's Progeny's own.
> It autodetected ALL of my hardware, including my mouse for X - something
> that SaX2, one of the best X autoconfig programs to date has been
> consistently unable to do - without even a glitch, and gave me base
> package options to install based on groups.
w0w!!
> If you're looking for a way to play with Debian and you have a spare
> system, Progeny is where it's at. My only disappointment is that it
> doesn't come with an option to install on ReiserFS out of the box; and few
> enough distros do that anyways that I'm not concerned about it overly
> much.
I was looking at Linux distributions the other day, as I want to
replace both my server and workstation, and am ready to try a
differant distribution -- I'm quite happy with Slackware, but it
would be worth trying some new stuff.
Here's the list of distributions, mostly non-mainstream, whose
claims caused me to be interested:
http://www.jblinux.net/
http://www.beehive.nu/
http://www.rocklinux.org/
http://www.trustix.net/
http://tiny.seul.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/
http://www.stampede.org/
They each claim to small, unbloated size, simplicity, or security,
or a combination of the above.
I'm quite probably going to use one of the above for my workstation,
and http://www.linuxfromscratch.org for my server.
> --
> George Metz
> Commercial Routing Engineer
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