On Sunday 08 February 2004 01:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Re: Knoppix is Not Debian > From: Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:28:03PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > > Once you do the HD installation, you have their, allbeit mixed, distro > > based on Debian and KDE. > > Ok, now... we've got a stupid who couldn't figure out how to read well > enough to run the Debian installer. You thus propose to him that he > install a completely non-standard Knoppix, which he does. > > > You then upgrade and play with it the way you would with any purer Debian > > installation. > > And *now* you propose that the same stupid move to unstable, which is the > only possible sane upgrade target from the mess that is Knoppix. Just > great... he didn't have enough clue to understand *stable*, and now you > propose to shunt him directly to *unstable*. Please. > > > What Knoppix gives you is decent hardware detection and auto-setup. > > Debian will itself be doing this. > > Yes, unfortunately even Debian will be pandering to the stupids who can't > be bothered to read well enough to know what was on the invoice they just > signed. > > And NO, before you whine... there's no reason why the stupids should have > to know that. There's no reason why he should be installing operating > systems, either, any more than he should be building cars. Or performing > brain surgery. Contrary to popular belief, there ARE some things that Joe > Stupid has no business doing. > > Sorry... the answer to Barbie's statement "But that's so hard!" is not to > dumb it down so that Barbie can continue not to think, but rather to > understand that there are some things Barbie just shouldn't be doing > without appropriate training.
This is little whining and condescending. .... and it is not a "stable" SID even though some components may be from that. One has to start somewhere. I actually downloaded the Knoppix image from a Lockergnome bulletin about using it for emergency hard disk data recovery from the CD-boot. When I learned from their site that I could do a HD-install, I made partitions and did so. I had been considering buying the Lindows, have been corresponing with him for a while. So ... with the great help from members of this list, I have tried to build kernels (did not succede) and modify things (yes and no). I will soon upgrade this whole mess to 2.6.*. So what if a Knoppix script sets up the desktop? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
