Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 15, 2006 08:06 AM
Mark, as was noted above, kanotix does not push itself primarily to newbies.
Many newbies will find that they will have a very good exprience with it, but it's not particularly newbie friendly.
It's not by any means newbie unfriendly however, it's just not newbie friendly. As some of the developers say, their goal is not to create another ubuntu [well, those are my words, not theirs, but I think they'd agree], but rather to create a very good cutting edge linux distro, based on debian sid, that 'just works'.
They are successful in this goal.
While Kanotix works very well as a livecd, that's not its primary purpose. Why waste such a good distro by just booting the cd? Install it to your hard drive, and you'll see how good it is.
Personally, I'm not a newbie, and I don't think kanotix is the best choice for most newbies. It depends on the newbie, if they are very tech savy to begin with and just don't happen to know GNU/Linux, and can read and follow directions, they should have little or no problems.
Likewise, if a newbie can click the 'install' link, and follow some simple directions, they will probably end up with a very good linux running in about 30 or 40 minutes. After installing nvidia or radeon drivers, if required, their box will be ready.
Kanotix is all about the scripts that the team generates, mostly kano. It's those scripts that make debian more accessible to newer but technically competent users.
Focusing on newbie friendliness has little or nothing to do with the real goals of kanotix from what I can see.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 15, 2006 08:06 AMMany newbies will find that they will have a very good exprience with it, but it's not particularly newbie friendly.
It's not by any means newbie unfriendly however, it's just not newbie friendly. As some of the developers say, their goal is not to create another ubuntu [well, those are my words, not theirs, but I think they'd agree], but rather to create a very good cutting edge linux distro, based on debian sid, that 'just works'.
They are successful in this goal.
While Kanotix works very well as a livecd, that's not its primary purpose. Why waste such a good distro by just booting the cd? Install it to your hard drive, and you'll see how good it is.
Personally, I'm not a newbie, and I don't think kanotix is the best choice for most newbies. It depends on the newbie, if they are very tech savy to begin with and just don't happen to know GNU/Linux, and can read and follow directions, they should have little or no problems.
Likewise, if a newbie can click the 'install' link, and follow some simple directions, they will probably end up with a very good linux running in about 30 or 40 minutes. After installing nvidia or radeon drivers, if required, their box will be ready.
Kanotix is all about the scripts that the team generates, mostly kano. It's those scripts that make debian more accessible to newer but technically competent users.
Focusing on newbie friendliness has little or nothing to do with the real goals of kanotix from what I can see.
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