-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Baron wrote: > I installed it in a qemu session. The ISO downloaded is an installer, not a > "live CD". > > !. The installation is finicky and I doubt any first time user will get it > right. Instead of offering to make partions, it says "run cfdisk". I did it > and made a linux and swap partition on one disk image. Cool. This works. > Then proceded with deliinstall. One chooses one (count 'em) keyboard and > later > one and only one language. The thing will make your swap after warning you > that this is dangerous if swap is active. Do it anyway. It offers three ways > to run lilo. Using its default simple method is adequate. It now asks where > to put the mbr. After accepting its default, I actually fixed it by using a > virtual knoppix session on the disk image file and put the mbr where it > belongs using fdisk. > > 2. Made a virtualbox vdi using its conversion tool. The iso and this file as > well hung the system on boot. Virtualbox has a weakness of not emulating a > known video device. In this case, this is fatal. > > 3. The fixed up disk image will boot nicely in qemu. Run delisetup. Either > choice of windowmanger yields the "failsafe" X with a vterm and blank gray > screen. Ran abiword. Could not resize the window. Got stuck in its help. Alt > control/D out. A beginning user with his/her 166mhz Pentium-antique will not > be able to figure out how to get the beautiful screenshots on the site and > how to correctly shutdown the system. > > 4, OK, will run nicely with a little resources. But needs more UI work to be > really practical. > > 5. Only provides added software from its CD. Weakness. > > Nothing like a bad review of another distribution to make my day.
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