On Wednesday 10 August 2005 02:39 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
Everyone thinks Knoppix is a cure all, run anywhere version of Linux, but it's just Debian tweaked a bit.
That is NOT what everyone thinks. What it is is a great diagnostic tool, which can prove Linux can run successfully in a particular hardware environment, and just happens to be a good distro in its own right as well. Gil's Knoppix as diagnostic experience just happens to prove Linux can work fine on his hardware, and that 9.3 has a problem doing the same.
Listening to everyone that suggests using it certainly makes it sound as if they do Felix. It is a good diagnostic tool, not a great one, because much of the software is older and not a good test, if you plan on running a newer distro later. If you plan to run SuSE 9.3, then you should use the diagnostic tool SuSE provides us, SuSE Eval disc. It serves all the same purposes Knoppix does plus more by providing newer items to test with on your newer machine. Do you want to always run old Linux on a new machine because it worked so well? I doubt anybody does, because that's not why we use Linux. Some distros do work better on some hardware than others, but that's because each one concentrates on different aspects. Gil has really only managed to confuse his efforts thus far, that's all. Instead of flaunting the "qualities" of Knoppix on a SuSE list, time would be better spent helping Gil run down his problems. I think he can get it working! regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.8.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! ...Calvin & Hobbes