Easier installation: I was never able to install Debian Potato, but I was able to install Libranet 1.9 (based on Potato) with little trouble.
The admin tool Xadminmenu makes life easier. It is pretty much all-encompassing, if you're an average joe. It lets you do pretty much everything you need including installing a new kernel with just a couple of clicks.
The Libranet community can be another reason to go with Libranet. It's much smaller than Debian's community which makes it easier to develop relationships with people. Perhaps, it's more newbie friendly, but I don't have much experience with the Debian community.
You may also wanna check out my older comments on Libranet.
Well, my experience with Libranet is that they do a good job at shipping a stable system with newer packages than Debian Stable (e.g. XFree86, KDE and GNOME).
The Libranet team provides good support and they are very nice people (hi Tal and Jon!). Also, the Libranet user community is very nice and friendly as well.
On the other hand, in this sort of economic climate, the upgrade price is a bit steep (USD $39.95 for the CDs). But you can also download the ISO for USD $10 less (USD $29.95). I don't think this is such a bad deal.
Personally, I'll probably wait a bit before I upgrade. I'm very happy with my Libranet 2.0 system at the moment and I don't really need KDE 3.0 and GNOME 2.0.
So if a company could legitimately sell me a high quality MP3 for a buck, and I could find it easily in a search engine, and then download it right away with no queues, then I'd be a happy consumer again.
Ideally something like:
$ apt-get buy "pink floyd" "dark side of the moon"
With your credit card information stored safely in one of apt's configuration files.
You may want to check out MIT's project Athena (Academic Computing at MIT). They have been using UNIX machines for the student-wide computing environment which includes all different kinds of applications (word processors, spreadsheets, CAD software, scientific applications, programming environments, instant messenging). There is also a Linux and a NetBSD version of the Athena environment.
I haven't been following the developments but I believe they were looking into introducing more Linux machines in the computer labs and enriching the Athena environment by adopting GNOME.
Perhaps some current MIT student can provide more information.
The author does make a good point regarding bloated linux software but on the other hand, why bother with KDE/Gnome as your *desktop* when there are many decent, low-resource alternatives such as IceWM, Blackbox, Window Maker etc?
I believe what the reviewer (Eugenia is a greek female name by the way) means is that if the user does not like Lycoris and decides to go back to Windows, s/he will then have a small partition of a couple of hundred megabytes (usually 128MB).
A clueless computer user is not likely to know how to merge this small partition with one of the other partitions. So s/he will end up with a tiny partition that is pretty much useless for anything other than temporary storage for not-very-large files.
Fragmentation sounds like a fine term to describe this situation, IMHO. Even though the term typically means something different.
Using a file as a swap area would be a superior approach (for clueless users, not for people who want to run a fast box) as it would eliminate the additional step of restoring the swap partition, in case they decide to go back to exclusive Windows use.
Consider using VNC. I believe it's free (as in beer). From their website:
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
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So, Netscape got officially netscaped :-)
It can probably push the legos and toys out of its way... As for the money, I'll come and pick it up for you :-)
Easier installation: I was never able to install Debian Potato, but I was able to install Libranet 1.9 (based on Potato) with little trouble.
The admin tool Xadminmenu makes life easier. It is pretty much all-encompassing, if you're an average joe. It lets you do pretty much everything you need including installing a new kernel with just a couple of clicks.
The Libranet community can be another reason to go with Libranet. It's much smaller than Debian's community which makes it easier to develop relationships with people. Perhaps, it's more newbie friendly, but I don't have much experience with the Debian community.
You may also wanna check out my older comments on Libranet.
You're trolling:
1. There has been a beta test going on for several weeks now.
2. Neither Tal nor I attacked Myuu.
3. Myuu's post was not clear as s/he admitted above.
I know something you don't: there has been a beta test going on for a while now.
Well, my experience with Libranet is that they do a good job at shipping a stable system with newer packages than Debian Stable (e.g. XFree86, KDE and GNOME).
The Libranet team provides good support and they are very nice people (hi Tal and Jon!). Also, the Libranet user community is very nice and friendly as well.
On the other hand, in this sort of economic climate, the upgrade price is a bit steep (USD $39.95 for the CDs). But you can also download the ISO for USD $10 less (USD $29.95). I don't think this is such a bad deal.
Personally, I'll probably wait a bit before I upgrade. I'm very happy with my Libranet 2.0 system at the moment and I don't really need KDE 3.0 and GNOME 2.0.
Old KDE and Gnome? I believe Libranet 2.7 ships with KDE 3.0 and Gnome 2.0. These are not old.
I can't wait for the day XFree86/Cygwin will be able to do rootless windows...
So what's the benefit of running a VNC server as oposed to running a lightweight web/cgi server like all these cable modems do these days?
What I'd like to know is what was the asteroid's effect on earth's seismic activity during the past few days.
Ideally something like:
With your credit card information stored safely in one of apt's configuration files.
You may want to check out MIT's project Athena (Academic Computing at MIT). They have been using UNIX machines for the student-wide computing environment which includes all different kinds of applications (word processors, spreadsheets, CAD software, scientific applications, programming environments, instant messenging). There is also a Linux and a NetBSD version of the Athena environment.
I haven't been following the developments but I believe they were looking into introducing more Linux machines in the computer labs and enriching the Athena environment by adopting GNOME.
Perhaps some current MIT student can provide more information.
Here's some links:
An overview
A dated article from the MIT student newspaper.
An FTP server where you can download the Athena software (MIT license)
It gives you motivation to learn how to use the lockpick!
Give your users 3-6 months and USD $1000 to those who have migrated to Linux by then.
The author does make a good point regarding bloated linux software but on the other hand, why bother with KDE/Gnome as your *desktop* when there are many decent, low-resource alternatives such as IceWM, Blackbox, Window Maker etc?
I believe what the reviewer (Eugenia is a greek female name by the way) means is that if the user does not like Lycoris and decides to go back to Windows, s/he will then have a small partition of a couple of hundred megabytes (usually 128MB).
A clueless computer user is not likely to know how to merge this small partition with one of the other partitions. So s/he will end up with a tiny partition that is pretty much useless for anything other than temporary storage for not-very-large files.
Fragmentation sounds like a fine term to describe this situation, IMHO. Even though the term typically means something different.
Using a file as a swap area would be a superior approach (for clueless users, not for people who want to run a fast box) as it would eliminate the additional step of restoring the swap partition, in case they decide to go back to exclusive Windows use.
Consider using VNC. I believe it's free (as in beer). From their website: