Sorry you got snagged at the website. It is available though, and real smooth install wise once you have the iso/CD.
Its understandable from the MEPIS point of view, if its easier to buy it than to find it on the site, they get more funding. If you're strapped for cash its nice that it's available if you're willing to look for it.
You seem to fit in caterory three, you won't pay for it, you're not worried enough to give it a good hard look and you have an alternative that you're happy enough with.
My wild guess is that CDs fit alot as is, and are much cheaper, which pays off with all the revisions. And DVD burners aren't as hugely common as CD burners. (also, compressed loopback was buggy at large sizes last time I heard it was tried)
A DVD would provide a stretched-limo kind of Live CD experience though.:-)
60 fps is no illusion. One whole field is rendered every 1/60th of a second. While it takes twice that long to light up all the pixels, its not an illusion.
Go to the theater if you want illusions of higher rates (double shuttering?).
Its effectively an unprompted/unencrypted passcode. There is some security to that, though it lacks the mathematical hardness of adding more bits to an SSH key, it could well keep alot of people safe from the next SSH exploit.
Knoppix was designed to be booted from a CD, I don't know of any concessions in it for sane user settings, dpkg database coherency, etc.
MEPIS targets a desktop and AFAIK doesn't readily install for much less than that, but it installs The Debian Way(TM) from what I can tell. I have ne clue what the second CD is for, I was never prompted for it and I see little/no documentation on it (sounds highly optional to me!).
In regards to raw-er installs of Debian, I was looking towards Bonzai Linux before MEPIS caught my eye.
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Every Tuesday it should rain parachuted bricks of gold in my back yard.
I'm not sure much is stopping you from making a Live DVD now.
Sorry you got snagged at the website. It is available though, and real smooth install wise once you have the iso/CD.
Its understandable from the MEPIS point of view, if its easier to buy it than to find it on the site, they get more funding. If you're strapped for cash its nice that it's available if you're willing to look for it.
You seem to fit in caterory three, you won't pay for it, you're not worried enough to give it a good hard look and you have an alternative that you're happy enough with.
For those discontented few with little inclination to pay...
Heres where to get the CD images.
Medialinux sounds really cool, I'm dying to play with it, and if its any good, I hope many people try it, if just to see what programs work for them.
I'm sorry, strong hallucinogens here.
... gotta go, my bookshelf is getting angry at me again.
The first post regarding distrowatch being called redundant (story didn't mention it either)?
My walls cry a torrent of blood and
MEPIS is an installer disc that boots live. It puts up a nice install with yawn inspiring ease.
I have yet to understand why the kludge that is the Knoppix install is regarded so highly.
My wild guess is that CDs fit alot as is, and are much cheaper, which pays off with all the revisions. And DVD burners aren't as hugely common as CD burners. (also, compressed loopback was buggy at large sizes last time I heard it was tried)
:-)
A DVD would provide a stretched-limo kind of Live CD experience though.
I guess distrowatch.com is chopped liver.
60 fps is no illusion. One whole field is rendered every 1/60th of a second. While it takes twice that long to light up all the pixels, its not an illusion.
Go to the theater if you want illusions of higher rates (double shuttering?).
Umm, 4.3MB/s easily achieved on a 100Mb/s network, which is cheapo consumer level stuff.
I don't fear that theaters would have much trouble stringing one or two CAT5 cables across the town.
Right next to:
"Jailbait Linux", with a penguin dressed up as britney spears? And costs $6.99?
Hmm, I think I crossed a line here...
Did you hear about the image that kills your collective whenever you view it?
Potato is getting old, most Debian users would rather take Woody.
If Solaris beats Linux, how long after the benchmarks do you think the kernel devs will take to reverse that? :-)
You can take my Amiga "from my cold dead hands!"
Not all of the software revolves around switching inputs. :-)
That a toaster can take video from a kitchen sync and superimpose the results of blender on it.
Well, it isn't all that far fetched.
Some people get of on seeing a girl with lots of dropped packets.
Lets fix NAT, marked as insightful?
How much insight into NAT does that represent?
NAT is broken by nature unless you want to go back to FidoNet. Which doesn't un-fracture the IP network and doesn't really fix anything.
So how about:
"Yeah, NAT breaks stuff, so use something else ya twit!"
Yeah, NAT breaks stuff, get used to it.
Means you're protected from nomadic blackhats.
Did you really want to give anyone who'd drop a keylogger on there the key to do a local root exploit anyways?
Its effectively an unprompted/unencrypted passcode. There is some security to that, though it lacks the mathematical hardness of adding more bits to an SSH key, it could well keep alot of people safe from the next SSH exploit.
No doubt resurrected by the ID# polling ritual we performed earlier.
How do you work around win-modems?
Wow, what optimism!
Knoppix was designed to be booted from a CD, I don't know of any concessions in it for sane user settings, dpkg database coherency, etc.
MEPIS targets a desktop and AFAIK doesn't readily install for much less than that, but it installs The Debian Way(TM) from what I can tell. I have ne clue what the second CD is for, I was never prompted for it and I see little/no documentation on it (sounds highly optional to me!).
In regards to raw-er installs of Debian, I was looking towards Bonzai Linux before MEPIS caught my eye.