Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 08, 2006 08:56 AM
As one reply has already pointed out the advantage of having the configuration occur at every boot up, that points out the advantage that grml offers over Ubuntu. I also don't think that the author made any claims of Ubuntu being inferior, so you don't need to defend your distro of choice.
The author has done a great job of telling why grml fits his situation and his needs which is what the My desktop OS articles are about. They are not meant to start debates.
I'm glad Ubuntu works for you, keep using it, it is a great distro with lots of great things going on in its development. I will say that Ubuntu has done a terrible job configuring the graphics on two of my three machines, but that's okay, not every distro can cover every piece of hardware. Manually configuring the xorg.conf file fixed the issues. I will say that Knoppix, Kanotix have never failed me in the hardware department. Also using Ubuntu as a LiveCD is not practical when there are faster ones out there. Great to use to check compatability before hard disc install though.
I really enjoyed this article. I also have used grml and find it useful. I also appreciated the author's explaination of how he puts the distro to work in his world, has given me some new ideas to try on my machines and during my travels.
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Re:Hardware detection? Not so rare...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 08, 2006 08:56 AMThe author has done a great job of telling why grml fits his situation and his needs which is what the My desktop OS articles are about. They are not meant to start debates.
I'm glad Ubuntu works for you, keep using it, it is a great distro with lots of great things going on in its development. I will say that Ubuntu has done a terrible job configuring the graphics on two of my three machines, but that's okay, not every distro can cover every piece of hardware. Manually configuring the xorg.conf file fixed the issues. I will say that Knoppix, Kanotix have never failed me in the hardware department. Also using Ubuntu as a LiveCD is not practical when there are faster ones out there. Great to use to check compatability before hard disc install though.
I really enjoyed this article. I also have used grml and find it useful. I also appreciated the author's explaination of how he puts the distro to work in his world, has given me some new ideas to try on my machines and during my travels.
Thanks for your work.
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