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Chris Hope wrote:
> David wrote: > > >>Just snatched the latest knoppix CD from JSG, and was amazed by how >>well it worked and how good it looked. Are their any distros designed >>to be installed that work so well (speed and HW detection) and look as >>good? I have tried debian and others before, but have always been >>disappointed. > > > As far as live CDs go there's a whole heap of them including: > > mepis http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mepis > kanotix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix > gnoppix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnoppix > > Of the three above Mepis and Kanotix also use the KDE desktop as the > default (Kanotix is based on Knoppix) and Gnoppix uses Gnome. > > I'm currently in the process of setting up a site to be launched in > early January which has info and screenshots of heaps of distros but I > won't publish the address here 'cos it will probaby be seen as spamming > (it's a pay-for-the-distro-to-be-delivered-to-you site). > Sorry, I forgot to mention I was wanting a HD installed distro that worked as well as knoppix, rather than a live cd  |
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Chris Hope wrote:
> David wrote: > > >>Just snatched the latest knoppix CD from JSG, and was amazed by how >>well it worked and how good it looked. Are their any distros designed >>to be installed that work so well (speed and HW detection) and look as >>good? I have tried debian and others before, but have always been >>disappointed. > > > As far as live CDs go there's a whole heap of them including: > > mepis http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mepis > kanotix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix > gnoppix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnoppix > > Of the three above Mepis and Kanotix also use the KDE desktop as the > default (Kanotix is based on Knoppix) and Gnoppix uses Gnome. > > I'm currently in the process of setting up a site to be launched in > early January which has info and screenshots of heaps of distros but I > won't publish the address here 'cos it will probaby be seen as spamming > (it's a pay-for-the-distro-to-be-delivered-to-you site). > Sorry, I forgot to mention I was wanting a HD installed distro that worked as well as knoppix, rather than a live cd |
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David wrote:
>>> Just snatched the latest knoppix CD from JSG, and was amazed by how >>> well it worked and how good it looked. Are their any distros designed >>> to be installed that work so well (speed and HW detection) and look as >>> good? I have tried debian and others before, but have always been >>> disappointed. >> As far as live CDs go there's a whole heap of them including: >> mepis http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mepis >> kanotix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix >> gnoppix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnoppix > Sorry, I forgot to mention I was wanting a HD installed distro that > worked as well as knoppix, rather than a live cd Knoppix HDinstall or Xandros are all good. the last version of Mandrake I tried(9 I think) was pretty good, and they usually only get better. |
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David wrote:
>>> Just snatched the latest knoppix CD from JSG, and was amazed by how >>> well it worked and how good it looked. Are their any distros designed >>> to be installed that work so well (speed and HW detection) and look as >>> good? I have tried debian and others before, but have always been >>> disappointed. >> As far as live CDs go there's a whole heap of them including: >> mepis http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mepis >> kanotix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix >> gnoppix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnoppix > Sorry, I forgot to mention I was wanting a HD installed distro that > worked as well as knoppix, rather than a live cd Knoppix HDinstall or Xandros are all good. the last version of Mandrake I tried(9 I think) was pretty good, and they usually only get better. |
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David wrote:
> Chris Hope wrote: >> David wrote: >> >> >>>Just snatched the latest knoppix CD from JSG, and was amazed by how >>>well it worked and how good it looked. Are their any distros designed >>>to be installed that work so well (speed and HW detection) and look >>>as good? I have tried debian and others before, but have always been >>>disappointed. >> >> >> As far as live CDs go there's a whole heap of them including: >> >> mepis http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mepis >> kanotix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix >> gnoppix http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnoppix >> >> Of the three above Mepis and Kanotix also use the KDE desktop as the >> default (Kanotix is based on Knoppix) and Gnoppix uses Gnome. >> >> I'm currently in the process of setting up a site to be launched in >> early January which has info and screenshots of heaps of distros but >> I won't publish the address here 'cos it will probaby be seen as >> spamming (it's a pay-for-the-distro-to-be-delivered-to-you site). >> > Sorry, I forgot to mention I was wanting a HD installed distro that > worked as well as knoppix, rather than a live cd You can install Mepis to the HD after playing around with it (I've done it myself to test it out). I'm assuming you can do the same with Gnoppix and Kanotix as well. The other big popular distros are Mandrake, SUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Xandros. I think they've all got screenshots on their sites and you can get a fair idea of the "prettiness" of the system from those, although I'm not sure how much info they have about hardware detection - you can get the appropriate links to their sites from distrowatch as well. As far as I am aware Knoppix has the best hardware detection, although the latest versions of SUSE (9.2) and Mandrake (10.1) are supposed to be pretty good as well. I've used Ubuntu on my iBook (although I recently wiped that with an install of Yellow Dog to try it out) and it seemed like a pretty nice distro. It's also based on debian and uses the Gnome desktop. There's a package management front end called synaptic which lets you select new stuff to install and update. -- Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/ |
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