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CollegeLinux Released to the Public

Posted by timothy on from the best-folks-to-whom-to-release dept.

YOU ARE SO FIRED! writes "It seems that the Swiss Robert Kennedy College (with the aptly named website) has released CollegeLinux, a Linux distribution based off of Slackware, to the public. If only my employees could've used this in school - I wouldn't have to fire them so much! See the interview with the dean of the school for more information."

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  1. Maybe many distros aren't the problem... by cubal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    but how they are perceived. For instance, there are a whoooole lot of distros based off other distros - based on RH, Slack, Debian etc.

    This is all well and good, but maybe we need some other terminology than "distro". A term which implied sort of half-fledged distro-ness [sic], for instance for a distro *based on* something, but focussed in a certain area, would be very useful.

    If this were the case, you would have your general distros (Redhat, Slack, Debian), and then, in sub-groups or similar, you would have Redhat-based College Distro, or Debian-based Medical Records distro or whatever....

  2. Slackware again? by farrellj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is it that it seems these days every new distro is based upon Slackware?!?!

    ttyl
    Farrell

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  3. Re:Wireless by BigBir3d · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Odd. I installed Mandrake 9.0 the other day on my IBM ThinkPad, and it was as easy to connect as my girlfriends iBook 800 was. Only one thing was done manually. It found the Lucent wireless card fine, and installed the correct driver. I told it to use DHCP, and that was it. I can even take the card out of my laptop, and put it back in, and it still works. No turning it off and on like I had to with Windows. Now I really understand why hot-swapping is so nice.

  4. Re:Will it ever stop? by RTPMatt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Linux is great...as long as you have VMware

  5. Re:Will it ever stop? by jemnery · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sorry, I'm not an MS apologist, but this is unfair. Sure, Windows has a *terrible* history (I've been a user since before v3.1), and MS is a pretty horrible company, but your comment simply is not true any more. Windows 2000 is very solid, and the system for installing drivers is quick and painless. "Computer Management" through MMC and auto-detection of new hardware are both impressive bits of coding, IMO.

    "and you get no information about what is really going on to troubleshoot!"
    Now this I totally agree with. I want to know what's going on too, but 99% of computer users don't want, and shouldn't need, to know.
    An example. A new graphics adaptor is a piece of consumer electronics these days, with a nice shiny box and everything. Would I prefer to perhaps recompile my f**cking OS kernel to get it working, or pop in a CD and wait? Hmmm... (And both methods require rebooting and nervous anticipation, BTW, Windows does not have the monopoly on that).

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