On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:46:43AM +0100, jerry garcia wrote: | > For home users there's precious little going for it. Suffer the | > alleged pain of a Debian install (once) and then enjoy the | > thrill of painless Debian upgrades (forever). | > | > Cheers, | > Jedd. | | I fail to understand this. | After running apt-get dist-upgrade | what is the difference between a knoppix install and a debian-sid/sarge | install? (other then avoiding the pain of a debian woody install?)
The following is a guess: some packages in Knoppix have higher version numbers than those in sid; some packages are Knoppix-specific (e.g. init scripts to do magic hardware detection?); some packages which would be part of a standard sid install won't be installed; some files might be present but not part of a package, or be changed from their default contents in a sid install. The pain of a Debian install isn't so bad, in my experience - if it supports your hardware properly. When the woody installer can't see your hard drive, it's less fun :( Cameron.
