Simon Kitching said: > Personally I would recommend the "testing" distribution. Sid/unstable > really can be unstable at times. I upgraded last week and lost all
> Stable is really old at the moment - though hopefully a new release will > be out within a few months. It's really more appropriate to servers than > desktop systems. Just do stable/testing with apt-pinning. I use that for my public services and testing for items I need such as spamassassin, eg. > Not quite, according to the reports I've seen. Yes, you can point a > Knoppix installation at standard debian repositories to get updates. But > apparently Knoppix sets up some of the system scripts etc. differently > from debian so there can be surprises (unexpected breakage) later on. > NB: all this is just hearsay. My attempts to go from knoppix to debian and have a normal debian install all puked. I use the bonzai linux installer to install a stock stable debian system with automatic hardware detection. I used testing on systems that need the hardware support. I've NEVER used X on ANY debian system, I only use them for servers. So I have no idea what it does for x/sound/usb detection, nor do I care. >> 5. I am interested in software RAID 1 and have 2 identical HDDs. Is >> there >> an option during the install from Debian CDs (didn't see it in the >> Knoppix <rant on> Read my amazingly detailed and concise writeup on how to convert to a raid system. http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org. </rant off> I've been very happy with the upgradability of debian systems, it has spared me a lot of work on maintaining various computataional clusters. You'd have to be stupid to use FC1 or FC2 on a server. Google for the reasons. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]