Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?
Posted Dec 29, 2003 17:21 UTC (Mon) by
znmeb (guest, #18291)
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Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?
I thought exactly the same things ... and I switched to Debian. I'm now
running a Knoppix hard disk install enhanced with math, network and audio
packages from the net on two of my machines, as much of Woody as I could
cram into a 32 MB Toshiba Libretto 70 (KDE sorta works in 32 MB -- Knoppix
doesn't, though) and a more or less vanilla Knoppix hard disk install as a
VMWare guest on my Windows machine. Four PCs, all running some flavor of
Debian.
A little history -- I've been trying for several years to get Red Hat on
the Libretto without much success. It took me a while (and some DOS 5.0
floppies) to get Woody up on the Libretto, but once I figured out how to
get files larger than one floppy into the DOS partition, the rest was
easy.
Now I've got my own Debian mirror on a 20 GB Archos USB hard drive. I
download packages at night, put them on the mirror with "apt-move", then
spread them around to my four Debian installations. I'm making my own
re-mastered Knoppix releases, etc. To sum it all up -- Debian and Knoppix
have made Linux *fun* again!
Ed Borasky
znmeb@borasky-research.net
http://www.borasky-research.net/
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