On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:56 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > this is not a troll, really! I'm just looking for some advice. > > I've been using Debian exclusively for about 2.5 years, and it's the > only linux with which I really have any experience. I teach in the [snip] > > I had a bit of a wake up call this week when I tried out Ubuntu. I > know it's based on Debian, and uses gnome, which really isn't so far > from my desktop, xfce. But I found it surprisingly confusing to use; > having everything hidden behind the gui layer seems quite foreign to > me now. so I really don't want to give folks a distro in which the > ocnf files need constant tweaking, as I've found they sometimes do > in Debian (at least in Sid, which I guess is an unfair comparison). Have you tried Gnoppix? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "But a much bigger business is selling anti-spam software. This is a billion dollar market, and it is rapidly growing. Any simple and effective solution against spam would defeat revenues and drive several companies into bankrupt, would make consultants jobless. ... Have a single, simple, and permanent solution to the problem and - boom - this billion dollar market is dead. That's one of the reasons why people are expected to live with spam. They have to live with it to make them buy anti-spam software. Content filters are perfect products to keep this market alive." Hadmut Danisch
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