On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:32, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:33:05 +1300
>
> Kerry Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 08/10/06, Andy Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > How well does a 'USB distro' run - is it fast enough to work on
> > > full time, or really just for trouble shooting? My problem with
> > > something like SLAX would really be that I don't know what I need! I
> > > also have speed concerns about Virtualisation, I'll see what the PC is
> > > when I get there.
> >
> > USB distro is much quicker than virtualisation or CD distro. I think
> > USB 2 is as quick as a hard disk but I may be wrong there.
> >
> > SLAX is cool for noobs like me, it's probably considered a toy distro
> > by the "real" linux crowd. There's a "mySLAX Creator" that makes
> > "rolling your own" CD or USB trivial. Modules can be downloaded from
> > the website and can be easily added to the system. I think there's
> > also a module that creates modules from RPMs!
> >
> > That said, if you can do a full install then kubuntu is probably a
> > more complete solution.
> >
> > Kerry.
>
> I have found slax very useful in certain situations, the easy
> customisation of a bootable cd is not to be underestimated.
Just to add to the confusion :-)
PC-BSD installed a very usable KDE _absolutely faultlessly_ for me on a P/III.
No ports directory tree, but pkg_add worked similarly.
To be recommended.
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