On Tuesday 14 December 2004 1325, somebody named Alvin Oga inscribed this message: > > I *am* looking for out-of-the-box usability, > > sounds like you need to use "live (standalone) linux cd" to know that > hardware all works ... > - installing from cdrom to hardisk is a separate problem > > - knoppix-live cd, suse-live cd, slackware-live cd... > ( i'm not sure if there is a debian-live cd )
Something like MEPIS? It's not an official Debian live-cd, but pretty close. I've just (yesterday, actually) installed MEPIS on a box and first impression is that it seems to be fairly slick - the CD is a sort of combo live/install cd, so you can use it either way. It was a bit slow on the machine I'm testing (K6-400, 256MB ram), but that's mostly due to a dog slow CDROM drive. It's fairly useable once installed on the hard drive, which I don't think is too bad for a full-fledged KDE system. Although OpenOffice was slower . . . FWIW, it ran pretty nicely in live-cd mode on a lab machine at school, but those are P4-2.8Ghz machines with fast everything. :^) Also (if it matters), MEPIS gives you KDE by default, if you want a default Gnome system look at Ubuntu. No personal experience with it, though. NRH -- Life is like a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
