Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 15, 2006 01:09 PM
Clearly no distro can make everyone happy. That's not a mystery. However, since this distro makes people who discover it happy pretty much every day, I'd say you're in a distinct minority in terms of the problems you encountered.
However, your comments in the above posting don't do you much credit. I don't know if you're just having a bad day, or what.
Since kanotix is essentially debian sid with some very small modifications, I'll assume you simply don't like debian sid. Or something. I actually can't really make much sense out of this last comment. I haven't seen anyone have any problems with the scripts, or with hard drive installs, as a rule. Obviously, some hardware simply won't work. I've had one failed install, but that's the same for pretty much any distro I've ever tried, so nothing unique there.
The reviewer is pretty much right though, if you want debian in as friendly a package as you can get at the moment, this is your best bet. Will it work for everyone? Probably not. Does any distro work for everyone? Probably not.
Anyway, for those readers other than Mark, give Kanotix a look, it's an excellent hard drive distro despite what he says, one of the best, if not the best, I've ever tried. I only use the livecd to test for hardware compatibility before installing, and the occasional rescue operation.
But each to his own. I'll probably check out GRML for its hardware recognition, good rescue cds are valuable no matter what, as long as a distro is either debian or debian based I'm always interested in checking it out.
It's unfortunate that you seem to have missed the overall gist of this article, and that you still are missing it, but that's life, not much we can do about that.
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Re:One response and a farewell
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 15, 2006 01:09 PMHowever, your comments in the above posting don't do you much credit. I don't know if you're just having a bad day, or what.
Since kanotix is essentially debian sid with some very small modifications, I'll assume you simply don't like debian sid. Or something. I actually can't really make much sense out of this last comment. I haven't seen anyone have any problems with the scripts, or with hard drive installs, as a rule. Obviously, some hardware simply won't work. I've had one failed install, but that's the same for pretty much any distro I've ever tried, so nothing unique there.
The reviewer is pretty much right though, if you want debian in as friendly a package as you can get at the moment, this is your best bet. Will it work for everyone? Probably not. Does any distro work for everyone? Probably not.
Anyway, for those readers other than Mark, give Kanotix a look, it's an excellent hard drive distro despite what he says, one of the best, if not the best, I've ever tried. I only use the livecd to test for hardware compatibility before installing, and the occasional rescue operation.
But each to his own. I'll probably check out GRML for its hardware recognition, good rescue cds are valuable no matter what, as long as a distro is either debian or debian based I'm always interested in checking it out.
It's unfortunate that you seem to have missed the overall gist of this article, and that you still are missing it, but that's life, not much we can do about that.
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