Re: distro for novices
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 1325, somebody named Alvin Oga inscribed this
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> > I *am* looking for out-of-the-box usability,
>
> sounds like you need to use "live (standalone) linux cd" to know that
> hardware all works ...
> - installing from cdrom to hardisk is a separate problem
>
> - knoppix-live cd, suse-live cd, slackware-live cd...
> ( i'm not sure if there is a debian-live cd )
Something like MEPIS? It's not an official Debian live-cd, but pretty
close. I've just (yesterday, actually) installed MEPIS on a box and first
impression is that it seems to be fairly slick - the CD is a sort of combo
live/install cd, so you can use it either way. It was a bit slow on the
machine I'm testing (K6-400, 256MB ram), but that's mostly due to a dog
slow CDROM drive. It's fairly useable once installed on the hard drive,
which I don't think is too bad for a full-fledged KDE system. Although
OpenOffice was slower . . . FWIW, it ran pretty nicely in live-cd mode on
a lab machine at school, but those are P4-2.8Ghz machines with fast
everything. :^)
Also (if it matters), MEPIS gives you KDE by default, if you want a default
Gnome system look at Ubuntu. No personal experience with it, though.
NRH
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