--- In [email protected], Joan Leach <jleach728@...> wrote:
>
> IceWeasel is Debian's Firefox, so check for Flash in libraries, run Synaptic 
> after install, or if you have enough RAM, it might work in live mode, too. I 
> prefer Mint or PcLinuxOS, but I used to fiddle with Knoppix, but it's been 
> awhile. I just watched a DVD movie with Puppy LuPu after taking out the Puppy 
> Live CD, and I have no hard drive in this laptop.
> 
> Joan in Reno

I made the mistake recently of trying to run aptitude safe-upgrade on a live 
distro. System ran out of "disk space". Whoops!

It was on a laptop with only 1GB of RAM. I still haven't installed anything to 
the HDD yet. I'm torn between Ubuntu and Debian. Normally I wouldn't consider 
running Ubuntu, but I have to admit it ran live pretty good and if I went with 
Ubuntu I could have KDE 3.5 packaged even so it is a tough decision.

It is going to be a lot of time setting it up either way I go. Ubuntu and strip 
it down or Debian and build it up ... this is hard! Then again with Ubuntu I'll 
likely learn things I'd rather not and Debian I'll learn things I probably 
should.

I guess I should burn a Debian CD and see how it runs on the hardware. The dumb 
laptop can't boot off USB. I hate wasting discs.



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