Hi, Vito wrote: > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus > machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and > others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those > distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great > selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place.
I don't want to start the usual distro flame war but after all I recommend against using Knoppix, Ubuntu or SuSE for hard disk installation. I've came across a quite tellingly post on Debian backports mailing list by Ben Vinger: By watching the behaviour of Distro developers, you would think the day a distro version is released is the day it dies. >From then onwards, only the next version counts. >From the viewpoint of the user, the distro's life starts on the day it is released. That is why there is such a big disconnect between Distro developers and users. If a user wants the next version of package X, the distro developers are generally not interested in providing that. They expect the user to: 1.) install the (at first) horribly unstable next version of the distro, preferably supplying them with encouragement and praises along the way. 2.) failing that, wait for the next version. This is where Ubuntu seemed to come to the rescue - at least its next version is never that far away. But Ubuntu is not solving the real problem directly, which is the developers abandoning a distro on its release day (apart from security updates). That is why I appreciated Backports so much - you are fixing the right problem. Thanks guys - especially Daniel Bauman for KDE 3.5, and Martin Pitt for PostgreSql 8.1 Ben ................................ Cheers, Florian -- Life's uncertain...eat dessert first... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
