[debian-knoppix] Some suggestions for debian-knoppix
I love your distribution, it is really great. Here are some things I
thought of that might be of value.
1) Build in NDISWrapper into your kernel.
This would be of major benefit to laptop users o the newbie variety. While
I'm not fond of proprietary drivers, I think that allowing the person to
migrate to linux easily is probably more valuable in the long run.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/
2) Add testzilla-client to the distribution
This would mostly be for the benefit of the wider debian distribution to
find out what hardware is and is not supported. Have people pop knoppix
into every box they come across, and send in a quick report on the hardware
support.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/vogels/TestZilla/Report/functionality.htm
3) Allow usage of currently installed boot managers
Your install of the boot manager works great (the auto adding of the other
partitions is really appreciated), but it would be nice to be able to
instead use the Windows boot manager or add to a currently installed grub.
This article describes the methods for using the windows bootloader for
loading linux. (may or may not be more effort than its worth).
http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/12/1.php
4) Instructions for preinstall
I'd be happy to write a howto for this for NTFS and FAT partitioned drives,
if you are willing to include it. Most of the howto's I've seen skip a few
important details. Also, there likely should be a mention in the current
docs that lilo no longer has the limits to 10 GB for the first partition.
5) Automatic changes to the debian installer config to point at the correct
mirrors.
You might consider updating the apt sources list based on the persons
timezone information.
Okay, I guess that's all of my comments for now, thanks for the wonderful
distro.
Quick question, do you have someone that checks the inbox for nonsubscribed
posters? I sent a similar email prior to subscribing, and apparently it is
still in the submission queue.
Tom M.
_________________________________________________________________
Keep up with high-tech trends here at "Hook'd on Technology."
http://special.msn.com/msnbc/hookedontech.armx
_______________________________________________
debian-knoppix mailing list
debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org
http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix
Reply to: