On Friday 31 March 2006 6:58 pm, bombay news wrote: > Trying my hand at linux after burning my fingers with mandrake ages > ago. U did not ask the right questions at the right places. GNU/Linux has been flying since 1999 with me.
> got hold of an old Live CD of Debian with Gnome 2.4 and find > the desktop architecture really cool. > Here are a few questions I need answered: > > 1.Will someone educate me on the new Debian 4 release? What are the > system requirements? Try sarge. works on a via c3 with 128 MB. 256MB makes it fly. > > 2.ToI of yesterday has the piece on Knoppix having a desktop even > better than Windows Vista. Vista is vapour ware amongst the more charitable descriptions. > Can it be installed or it exists only on > a Live CD format? Knoppix can be installed to your hard drive. But read up properly about partition tables and windoze wickedness before installing. Ideally use a new hardisk. -- rgds jtd -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
