SUSE vs Knoppix

[Ken Moffat]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
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>>I am currently using SuSE 8.2 personal and apart from the now well
>>documented problem I am havving recording Wavs I am getting on reasonably
>>ok with it.
>>I have read a lot  of favourable press recently about knoppix and
>>wondered if anyone would care to comment on the realative
>>advantages/disadvantages of Suse Vs Knoppix
>>

Knoppix is a great recovery system and a good linux demo. It can easily 
be installed to your hard drive. The hardware detection is very good. 
It's on one cd. It has access to debian archives, which contain huge 
amounts of software.

>>KNOPPIX Is debian based, SuSE is, well, SuSE.  I love KNOPPIX for recovery
>>purposes, but i'd never use Debian on a regular basis.  The entire
>>religious 'Gnu/Linux' zealotry combined with what i feel is completely
>>stupid packaging give me a bad taste in my mouth from Debian.  I'm a huge
>>Redhat fan, although i know some others on this list are not.
>>
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Gotta ask. What is so stupid about what I consider the best 
packaging/updating scheme out there. (sorry, haven't tried gentoo) You 
can keep debian updated using only a couple of commands once in a while. 
(apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade)

I just installed debian 3.0 to an old compaq with no cdrom (broken) 
using floppies and the internet install. Then did apt-get update apt-get 
dist-upgrade a few times while interspersing apt-get -f install to 
correct dependencies, and it's functional. Wouldn't want to try it with 
dialup, but it worked.

I hear a lot about debian zealotry. Guess I don't see that, but am 
certainly open to an explanation...



-- 
Ken