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Posted: July 04 2004,18:19

I've run linux for the almost three years, starting with Red Hat 7.2. It was enough to whet my appetite for more, and as soon as I found Knoppix, I installed it. This was my first exposure to apt-get, and I fell in love. But Knoppix, thought wonderful for running off a live CD, isn't so great for upgrading (I found some difficulty with the differences in the apt sources between testing and unstable) So after about six months of running Knoppix, I installed Debian Sarge and I have to say that the "dreaded Debian install" wasnt difficult at all. Pure myth. Sure, it was a little more complicated than Knoppix, but it was nothing that someone with a little bit of experience couldnt handle.

My current plans for DSL are to get a low end laptop with no hard drive running DSL out of ram (anybody know it that improves battery life significantly?), and saving my data to my USB keychain drive. Then, if I need something with more horsepower, I can SSH into my desktop and run my remote X apps over a VNC. Whoo hoo!

Thanks to all those who have helped to make DSL such a great distro. You guys rock!

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Posted: Aug. 02 2004,16:03

debian, of course
without it, there would be no dsl.
but otherwise, knoppix is the best

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jerome5

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Posted: Sep. 29 2004,10:08

"lazy and simple minded -> M$"

You dont have a clue what you are talking about.

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Posted: Sep. 29 2004,17:12

Suse9 is on my workstation.
Slackware8 is on my older computer, which I haven't touched in about a year.
I'll probably be putting Slack on the unused Windows partition of my workstation.

Slackware has the best performance from what I've seen, but I still prefer SuSE for Yast and for its built-in support of winmodems.
Personally I wouldn't ever choose DSL as my main distro, simply because of its lack of development tools and openGL. It rocks as a general-purpose liveCD though.

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Posted: Oct. 05 2004,20:00

-On my primary tower i use a combination of DSL for almost everything, windows xp for gaming, and win98 for a legacy laserprinter i got at a surplus auction (only driver in existance I found to work is for win98).
-I gave my family a remastered knoppix 3.2 with a root password; on the hdd is win2k because the cosmos would calapse in upon itself if my mother couldn't use her gardening design program.
-Xandros-OCE on a system in the works for a friend of mine, anti-piracy, computer illit, and very thankful to know a geek.
-I do keep a DSL cd updated with some nifty apps for data recovery, no telling what the next virus will do to the local problem user.

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