As a long-time Mandrake user concerned about the availability of future distros from that organization (yes, I'm a Mandrake Club member), I have also long been interested by debian, though never very successful in installing it. With Mandrake 9.1 dragging its release date (yes, it's out now, and I have installed it), I gave another try on debian.
First I installed Woody stable, then testing, then unstable. Lot of work just to get a leading-edge distro. And at the end of all that work, I didn't have a functioning sound card, and a few other problems. Reading that Knoppix was debian-based, I decided to give it a try.
Knoppix 3.1 detected all of my hardware on any machine I put it on. I was so impressed I actually did the hard-drive install (good story on how to do this is on the debianhelp.org site). Then I used that install's config files to debug my debian config files and get the latter working properly.
You can the Knoppix distro on any pc running windows or linux, so why not try it out!
This is the same point that I picked up on Dr. Villanueva Nuñez's excellent rebuttal. MS tries to scare its customers by alleging that open-source software is insecure. What is abundantly clear is that proprietary software, as exemplified by MS Outlook to cite just one example, is woefully insecure. Outlook users account for the transmssion of the vast majority of the world's virii.
And if your PC crashes and takes a year's worth of work with it, why just the EULA and you'll be reminded that there is NO GUARANTEE provided. Since you can't look into the code to see what the problem is, and since MS often won't even admit that its product has any defects whatsoever, the rational thinker must conclude that he's better off with open-source software, where it's all out in the open.
Muchísimas gracias, estimado Congresista Dr. Villanueva Nuñez, por su contribución al desarrollo de alternativas al imperalismo del software proprietario.
I'm running e-smith server 5.1.2 and wonder how it compares to ipcop. Since I'm on cable, every time I reboot I get assigned a new IP address; e-smith has a useful service that will automatically register my new IP with any one of a number of different domain name forwarding agents, e.g. dyndns.
I note that ipcop is only on version 0.1.1 and I wonder if this means that the product is still evolving.
How would a product like Mandrake Server compare, apart from potentially being much bigger? (e-smith was only about 400 MB for the complete package).
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As a long-time Mandrake user concerned about the availability of future distros from that organization (yes, I'm a Mandrake Club member), I have also long been interested by debian, though never very successful in installing it. With Mandrake 9.1 dragging its release date (yes, it's out now, and I have installed it), I gave another try on debian.
First I installed Woody stable, then testing, then unstable. Lot of work just to get a leading-edge distro. And at the end of all that work, I didn't have a functioning sound card, and a few other problems. Reading that Knoppix was debian-based, I decided to give it a try.
Knoppix 3.1 detected all of my hardware on any machine I put it on. I was so impressed I actually did the hard-drive install (good story on how to do this is on the debianhelp.org site). Then I used that install's config files to debug my debian config files and get the latter working properly.
You can the Knoppix distro on any pc running windows or linux, so why not try it out!
And if your PC crashes and takes a year's worth of work with it, why just the EULA and you'll be reminded that there is NO GUARANTEE provided. Since you can't look into the code to see what the problem is, and since MS often won't even admit that its product has any defects whatsoever, the rational thinker must conclude that he's better off with open-source software, where it's all out in the open.
Muchísimas gracias, estimado Congresista Dr. Villanueva Nuñez, por su contribución al desarrollo de alternativas al imperalismo del software proprietario.
I note that ipcop is only on version 0.1.1 and I wonder if this means that the product is still evolving.
How would a product like Mandrake Server compare, apart from potentially being much bigger? (e-smith was only about 400 MB for the complete package).
Which place is selling the Velo 1? I'm interested in one of these. (midtoad@globalserve.net)