Knoppix, Morphix or Mepis
After trying several distro's, I think for now I will use one of the three. My leanings are towards Knoppix, but the modular part of Morphix sounds good too. I would like opinions of anyone who used any of them or have used more than one. Mostly I am looking at hardware recognition since I have a few peripherals hooked up to my computer, i.e. usb printer, usb zip drive, along with the regular ide cd r/w and dvd, plus I have a pci wireless internet adapter, Plus I need to be able to edit photo's.
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Well, having used Mepis and Knoppix, my vote would go to Mepis. It has better admin tools, especially for wireless.
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Well it seems that 100% of respondents choose Mepis:)
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What's the big advantage of using one of these to just installing debian sid? I never had any (big) trouble installing debian and I'm not sure if all that software that comes with these distro's is what I want. Starting with a base install and apt-get to the system I want is just cleaner I guess.....
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Tried Debian a few times and can never get it running. Could be me or a corrupt ISO image. However I ran out of patience with it at the moment. When I get a little more experience with using apt-get from one of these systems, maybe I'll try again in the future. Morphix comes with a basic system is my undrstanding, and then you add more of what you want by downloading other components or using apt-get. Knoppix is the most bloated of the group, or at least that is one complaint I've heard from a few usuers.
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Another Debian-based distro is Libranet, with its own separate forum.
Am trying to replace my Knoppix hd-install with another Debian-based distro to test out. Just wondering; how do Morphix and Mepis compare with the full Libranet distro? |
nycace36: i use a PII 266 with 128 mb ram. Morphix looks the best, but the ligh-gui version is slow on my machine, don't know why. MEPIS, i haven't tried, but it comes with KDE by default IIRC, so it's too heavy for me. Libranet runs great on mine, i downloaded the free 2.7 version (woody), did a minimal install, apt-getted fluxbox, apt-get update and upgrade, changed the sources.list to sarge, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade and voilá. Runs fast.
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