Re: larry

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

Below is a copy of one the two email I received personnally after 
posting on this thread. Thank's guys to preached for your church, but if 
it is really that goob, you don't need to get that low...
I am glag to have a Debian system, even if it was not easy to install. 
Now, it's working to our pleasure, and we are only to enjoy it, help 
with translation, and why not, if I get ride of my adversty toward C++ 
contribute to it.
Thanks again, Libranet'guys, but you look like Jehovah witness on that 
account
Thierry

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 08:39 +1100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:


Thierry - why not consider Libranet?  The current version is 2.8.1, and
it's getting old now, 18 months since it's release.  It doesn't support
wireless out of the box, but you can make bootable floppy disks etc or
even boot off the cdroms.  It ships by default with a 2.4.21 kernel, but
that's easily updateable with the Xadminmenu administration tool (to
2.4.26, doesn't support any higher kernel than this, nor 2.6 kernels).  

It's a free download, 2 disks.  The forums are excellent, with a lot of
good friendly support.  Better still, Libranet 3 is in beta testing and
just around the corner, and it will support wireless out of the box i'm
pretty sure - I don't have wireless but i've heard good reports from
other beta testers.  I think you'd really like Libranet, and it's Debian
based, 100% compatible with Debian.  And has a much better installer,
better imho than even the new Sarge installer.  And it has Xadminmenu,
sort of like Suses' yast but doesn't have the kitchen sink, does what
needs to be done and nothing more.  

To be honest - it's the best distro i've used, and i've been using Linux
since 97 and Redhat 5.2.  I've used everything from beos, to windows, to
macs, to solaris and bsd.  I don't even have a Windows drive anymore, I
gave that up after six months of using Libranet and finding that I just
hadn't even booted into Windows in that time.  I think that says a
lot.  

Anyways, consider it.

http://www.libranet.com/

Dave

PS Libranet 3 won't be free, most probably will be around US $60 but
trust me, it's money well spent.