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[Rick Sivernell]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 07:48:49 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 21:42:41 -0600
> Rick Sivernell <res005ru at gte.net> wrote:
> 
> > List
> > 
> >    I have been watching this last bit of conversation with bated
> > interest. I am using Caldera stuff still. But it appears I need to
> > do some heavy consideration of moving to something else. At this
> > time I have a lack of funds to buy much in OS's. I like the setup of
> > the eServer/eWorkstation 3.1.1 systems, but they are starting to
> > fall back in the stable side of cutting edge. While I do not want
> > bleading edge, since I am still do college software design for one
> > more year. I would like the opion of this list, no flames as I know
> > we all love our stuff <g>. 
> > 
> > 1.  Should I stay with what I have and just upgrade it as I can to
> > xfree 4.3 kernel 2.4.20.X gcc 3.2, I really do not care for kde and
> > I am using xfce 3.18 xterm 3.19 ?
> 
> If I were you, I'd stay with what I have right now.  If you have a
> spare partition, you might try to install something else to play with.
>  I'd
> suggest you look at Knoppix.  Knoppix is a basic distro you can even
> install to a hard drive (unfortunately, they don't allow XFS install).
> 
> It's based on Debian, so a chicken can do upkeep (upgrade,
> maintenance).
>  dselect takes care of all dependencies for you, not like RPM.  IMHO,
> it's always been the best, just that annoying GNU stupidity.
> 
> Boot up Knoppix and play with it.  You can do almost anything without
> affecting your isntalled system as long as you don't make your hard
> disk read/write.
> 
> > 
> > 2. dump it and move to another distro.
> > 
> > System SCSI drives and cdroms NVida RNT2 video Asus P3 mobo.
> > 750+ meg memory soundcard nic and some other general stuff.
> > 
> > Any thoughts here as to what direct I might want to go. Cheers to
> > all
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel
> -- 
> Focus on the dream, not the competition.
> 		Nemesis Racing Team motto
> 
David

   Sounds logical, I have been listening to the list talk of knoppix,
and thought about looking at it. It is on my list now. Too much to d,
not enough time in the day.

cheers

-- 
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas  75287
972 306-2296
res005ru at gte.net
Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1
Registered Linux User

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