RETRY DSL 0.9.3 Remaster - BeatrIX 2005.1 Comparis

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Topic: RETRY DSL 0.9.3 Remaster - BeatrIX 2005.1 Comparis
started by: sci_fi

Posted by sci_fi on Feb. 06 2005,16:35

Hello and thanks for your patience:

I have been experimenting with BeatrIX 2005.1 and DSL 0.9.3 and am posting my early results for anyone interested. Some details:

Tests were informal and were done with the standard live CD version of BeatrIX 2005.1 and a live CD of DSL 0.9.3 remastered to provide "equivalent" functionality. I tested only live CD's. I have not tested hard drive installations. I did not test printing configuration capabilities in this exercise. I have attempted to avoid comparisons about personal preference items such as backgrounds, splash screens, window managers, etc.

Unfortunately, the Openoffice.tar.gz files in the DSL CD were in the optional folder which makes boot times not directly comparable. I estimate an additional 35 seconds to download and install Openoffice.tar.gz on the DSL system.

I am a linux newbie. There may be some newbie misunderstandings in what follows. I welcome corrections to improve my understanding. I wish to express my sincere admiration to the BeatrIX and DSL teams. These distro's are fabulous and greatly aid mass acceptance of linux. I look forward to more releases. Comments most welcome.

RESULTS:

DISTRO BeatrIX 2005.1 DSL 0.9.3 remaster

SIZE 182MB 163MB

CONTENTS Standard Standard plus
rcfirewall.dsl,
firefox-1.0PR.dsl,
jre1_5_0.tar.gz,
openoffice.tar.gz
(in optional folder)

BOOT TIME 1:55 1:46
2:21 with OO (estimated)
CONNECTIVITY

Wired Broadband Excellent out of box Excellent out of box

Wireless Broadband Without ndiswrapper Wrote boot script to
my adapter could not configure wireless
function adapter; excellent

Other (dial up, etc.) Not tested Not tested

OVERALL HARDWARE DETECTION

Dell Desktop Excellent out of box Excellent out of box

HP Celeron Notebook Scrolling and tapping Excellent out of box
on synaptics touchpad
did not work. Could not
fix after 1 hour trying.
Otherwise excellent.

Save configuration Save to hdd partition Clever. Have to know
utility does not work. details of which files you
need. Works well.

Security Did not test firewall Firewall works well.
Otherwise seems OK. DSL appears to allow
any virus or hacker who
gets in to sudo at will.
Is this really the case?

Remastering Not supported yet??? Documentation sketchy;
essentially the same as
KNOPPIX.

Posted by clivesay on Feb. 06 2005,17:48

Interesting comparison. My only comment is that the remaster documentation is really right on the money. If you follow meo's remastering howto, you can easily have a custom OS. It is very complete except for all the messiness involved in chrooting. But others have discussed chrooting in the forums and Knoppix docs have most of this covered so why recreate the wheel. All people need to know is that DSL is based off of Knoppix 3.4 and they can go form there.

Nice simple comparison, though. Thanks for sharing

Chris

Posted by sci_fi on Feb. 06 2005,18:19

Thanks, Chris. I'll check Meo's HowTo. The only instructions I found earlier seemed to have a lot of errors.

Onwards. This stuff really rocks.

Greg

Posted by Caspar_s on Feb. 09 2005,00:05

Why did you add the firefox dsl to it? Firefox comes in the 0.9.3 release.