Re: debian

[Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org>]

On Friday 20 June 2003 20:32, Bijan Soleymani wrote:

> I run Debian on several Architectures. Red Hat and SuSe run on them
> too. I think the only architecture that Debian supports but almost no
> one else does is the 68k.


Wrong. They only run on AMD64, IA-64 and IA-32. SuSE supports PPC. 
RedHat doesn't support PPC, and non of them support Sparc or MIPS or 
[insert favorite architecture here].

> For one architecture that I use in particular (Sparc) we don't even
> need hardware detection. There's about 2 sound cards, 2 network
> cards, a few scsi cards, and almost all are either included in the
> kernel or easy enough to figure out.
>
> However I have sometimes done 20+ installs of Debian on i[3456]86 PCs
> and have used Knoppix because it saves me LOTS of time.

Well, Libranet, Lindows (Argh!!) Xandros and Knoppix are all Debian 
based. I have tried all of them (except Lindows) and they are all 
serving a popuse. It is good to have them, I especially like Libranet 
and Knoppix. 

Now that the discussion is so much about Knoppix, let me tell you that a 
while back I tried a distro called CollegeLinux which was based on 
Slack but used Knoppix's auto detection. Cool !

Cheers

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Aryan Ameri