Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 10:50:08 +0100, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> I'd just like to clarify a point here. It's one thing to have a running
> system, and it's another thing to have an up to date system. The best
> way to have an up to date system is to have a system that makes it easy
> to upgrade and apply security patches. In my experience, of all the
> linux distros, this is where debian excels.
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> As far as I can tell, people aren't criticizing Knoppix for not
> *working*. It works great. The question is, is it easy to keep a
> Knoppix hard drive install up to date? I have no experience with this,
> but it sounds like a lot of people feel that it's non-trivial.
Feeling - sounds so subjective.
I did, because I had to. No other *Debian* installer would go through the
install.
And it was a piece of cake to change the sources, update, dist-upgrade.
Over. Still tracking Testing and Unstable daily. No problem at all.
I tend to nourish the feeling that one or another arguing against Knoppix
are guided by whatever, but personal experience. I'm too lazy to cite some
of those vague arguments. "think twice", "I wouldn't" ....
In this list, I remember a single, concrete post against
Knoppix-to-Debian. Fully understood and point taken: That chap had no clue
how to generate a correct sources.list and no idea on dist-upgrade.
Ball in the camp of the nay-sayers: If someone doesn't know this, how
would installing Woody and updating (of except Woody) be any simpler ?
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