On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Paul Swafford wrote:
> the latest debian release is 30r2 .. which I have most of the 7 disks - I
> recommend Knoppix for a quick debian desktop system
> 1. you get to see what you'll end up with without the pain of
> installation/partition hell etc.
> 2. installing takes less than an hour (typically less than 30mins on
> faster hardware)
> 3. once installed and configured you can apt-get whatever else you need -
> typically multimedia plugins etc .. to get windows(ick) media to play
Knoppix is fine as long as you are not planning to do any serious
upgrading. The mixture of stable -> experimental packages plus the
specialised Knoppix packages means that the system will lockup | barf |
fall over during a major upgrade.
Phil.
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