On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:48:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 14.12.2004 17:19:35: > > > But imho that is not true. the only differences between knoppix and debian > are: > 1. knoppix has the better hardware recognition. > 2. knoppix has just many more packages installed than debian > But after all, they are the same. I can make a system, total the same as it > was a knoppix - system. >
Agreed. But the usual trend is that 1) people try knoppix live cd 2) get impressed by it and install it on the hard drive 3) then after sometime they realize that knoppix is not as stable as debian and so they want to shift to debian. 4) the shifting process (from knoppix to debian) is not very clean unless you know what you are doing or installing debian unstable. 5) The problem, I think is that knoppix mixes stable/testing/unstable packages and puts them on to one CD. But debian is not very tolerant to mixing these distributions. Hence all the problems. > By the way, why didn�t you think about a solution or a hint isntead of > flaming him for using another distro. Sorry belahcene. I agree that just flaming without a solution is bad. > I thought, that the debian users are more tolerant than some others, but as > we know now, that�s just not the truth for all of us! They are in fact very tolerant. But remember there are many debian based distributions out there. For example knoppix, ubuntu, libranet to name a few. We do not get any questions about ubuntu and stuff on this list. But there are many questions relating to knoppix -> debian conversion. So I just wanted to emphasize that knoppix is not debian but is debian based. I dont know howmany agree with this opinion. But if more people feel that we can allow knoppix related questions in debian-user, I can change the FAQ. Afterall, the idea of FAQ is to help the end-user and not to blame him for ignorance. > I know, I am not more tolerant, than some others, but I am fed up with those > boring "this is not the correct forum, list, ..." and RTFM. I just try to > help if I can and I am so glad, if someone can help me too, if I have > problems... I am not sure I agree with the above statement. While RTFM is a bit impolite, I do think asking knoppix-related questions on a debian mailing list is a bad idea. I am not saying that there are no knoppix experts on this list. But answering knoppix questions will not help debian users or debian in any way. -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Cornell University http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flumech/
