[huskerlug] Re: The Debian Leap
- From: Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:11:41 -0600
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> Same here, I just installed knoppix on my machine this week and I just lo=
ve
> it. I don't think that I will ever go back to Red Hat or Mandrake and I
I tried Knoppix the other day when I my laptop came in. I used it for it's=
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hardware detection capabilities. What a great tool to have around!
One thing I forgot to mention about my Debian experience was the install. =
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I've seen a lot of complaints about Debian's installation. I just didn't=20
think it was difficult at all. It may be text based, but that doesn't mean=
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it's bad. I thought it was a pretty simple and progressed naturally throug=
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the installation stages. It's also nice that it lets you activate swap ear=
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on so that you can install it on older machines with little memory. With R=
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you can run it with 16 MB, but you'll have to put in at least 32 MB for the=
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installer :-)
I also found some up-to-date KDE packages for Debian last night, so I'm hap=
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there. I think I might just have to repartition my laptop so I can include=
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Debian install on there along side Gentoo. Does anyone know of a=20
non-destructive reparitioning tool that lets you modify ext3 partitions?
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Steve Bremer
RHCE,CCNA
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