Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th May 2003 08:29 UTC
It's been almost a year since our first Linux distro poll, so here is your... annual Linux poll. Click more and vote for your favorite distribution!
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I agree. While Debian's installer is not extremely bad (except the experimental one; STAY AWAY FROM IT), its kernel is outdated, so it doesn't recognize my NIC or my sound card. Knoppix did both (after a bit of ACPI fiddling). Knoppix is just genius, because it has 5 awesome benefits:
1. HW detection. Very good.
2. Debian-based, with much cutting-edge. Stable and yet comes with XFree 4.3, for example.
3. Live CD. So many uses!
4. Transparent Decompression. Why don't more distros use this, instead of having us download 5 zillion ISO images? Knoppix comes with an extremely-loaded, easily updatable system on one.
5. Easy install, with native XFS support. This is very useful. Plus, you can use the system while it's installing (which takes maybe 10-20 minutes, not much at all)
On my new desktop, I have a Gentoo partiton and a Knoppix one. Whenever I need to see how to do something, I cheat and look at how Knoppix does it