Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:29:37 -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:11:29AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
>> > What would you suggest as an alternative? I've heard calls for Morphix,
>> > but that's a derivitive of Knoppix.
>>
>> I'd suggest them putting the Woody CD in the drive and running the
>> installer. Woody's installer is pretty brain-dead... there's not a whole
>> lot there to mess up. That's what's nice about it.
>
> That's true, but a new user might want newer software than woody has
> to offer. Things like openoffice, and newer versions of mozilla.
>
> Bijan
Well, that's easy. Install a minimal woody, then point to testing or
unstable and do apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade.
At lest then you have a coherent, updateable debian distro, even though
(in the cases of testing and unstable), things may break from time to time.
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....................paul
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