> -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Murdock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:44 > To: BYU Unix Users Group > Subject: Re: [uug] Ode to Knoppix > > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 09:16, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > In all seriousness, it takes at least 2 hours to get a Debian box > > up and running at an install fest. With Knoppix, it's more like > > 10-20 minutes. That only means that you can get more people in > > and out of the install fest stations with less hand-holding. In > > fact, I would bet that it takes less time to install Knoppix than > > Red Hat or Mandrake, simply because all it does is copy over an > > image, rather than install actual packages. > > That does sound quite tempting, until I remind myself that it is > still Debian. I really should at least try using debian for a few > days before I continue to bad mouth it, I guess. If I can actually > install it in "10-20 minutes" that greatly improves the chances that > I will.
Hmmm... It might be possible to get a Debian-like installation that will *actually work* on my hardware? I may have to try Debian again. (The last time I tried Debian, it just wouldn't work at all. I suppose I could have fixed it given enough time and effort, but since Red Hat and even Gentoo worked "right out of the box", as it were, I didn't see any point in spending the time.) ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
