Linked by Barry Smith on Mon 8th Dec 2003 19:40 UTC
This is the third in my series of reviews for Debian-based commercial distros that might be appropriate for SOHO use. The first article covered my exploration of Lindows, the second one focused on Libranet, and this article covers a recently released distro called MEPIS.
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> MEPIS took the concept behind Knoppix and went one better.
> Instead of focusing on a bootable CD with installation
> to hard drive as a grudging afterthought...
Eh? This implies that Knoppix's developer looks down on h/d installs, or that they're difficult.
I'm not a very experienced Linux user, and I found Knoppix's install script quite easy. In fact, I installed it _because_ it was so impressive as a "live-CD" distro:
_ It showed its excellent autodetection abilities.
_ It had such a good package assortment (including the latest KDE, not in the normal Debian release).
_ It required downloading only one CD image (with 2GB of compressed software).
Well, sorry for the rant. But although Klaus hasn't gone out of his way to advocate installs---obviously, that's not his focus---he's never "begrudged" people who liked Knoppix enough to put it on their hard drives. It's a compliment.