Hi Will,
yes it can be worth paying for the commercial version if you
want the lastest version and support from the vendor as well. Most
ppl who have done this are the non-geek users who believe in buying a
product. The $15 non-commercial cd that you can get from Phil at
http://www.copyleft.co.nz is suitable for linuxers not concerned about
support and willing to use apt-get update to upgrade.
The #libranet email list which anyone can join is very newbie friendly
with its subscribers having some inclination towards using multimedia
like mp3,tv,mpeg and gimp/blender.
I have used the $15 Libranet 1.9.1 cdrom. As a distro I would rate
it 7/10. It's faults? are that it is a 150meg base.tar.gz that unzips
to something like 350meg so you can't use a custom install to set
up a mail/print/web server on a 100 meg drive. And if something goes
wrong it can be time consuming to peruse the /etc directory to figure
things out due to the numerous debian type bash scripts. This would not
happen any more than redhat/mandy thou.
It's console/X frountend tool for setup called "adminmenu" is excellent
and includes a package tool called "capt" which is easier than "aptitude"
or "dselect" (Debian users can 'apt-get install capt')
Certainly this is the way to get home desktop users into a deb distro and
it is far better than redhat which is concentrating on the server enterprise
market now and doesn't really put tlc into the home user/desktop compared
to the other distros.
I don't know about Libra's 2.7 speed increase but it is not hard to be
faster than RH for using KDE 3.
cyou,
Keith.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Will Pilvio wrote:
> Any one with experience on this one? Is it worth the $$ vs Debian?
>
> From the Linux Journal Newsletter Oct. 9:
>
> Debian on Steroids: Libranet 2.7:
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6358 -- The Libranet
> distribution is promoted as offering all the security and stability of
> Debian but with an easier installation process. Leon Goldstein
> recently took version 2.7 out for a spin, and he was rather impressed
> with the performance and speed increase.
>
> Cheers Will
>
