Re: An easy home version of Linux

James Miller
2004-10-18T23:12:15Z

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote:

> somebody comes to seem easy after a time. I use Debian myself; its online
> installs (using a set of boot/root floppies or an install CD, but getting
> most packages from an up-to-date package repository) make it "easy" in a
> way that matters to me, though it is pretty weak on identifying hardware
> for you, so that part can be hard. Others like Slackware, which also has

Not so with the new installer, which I've tried. It does a very good job
of hardware ID. The new installer is what some of the newer Debianish
distros (Userlinux, Ubuntu) use. However Debian still doesn't seem to
have something like kudzu's ability to detect the presence of new hardware
in an already-setup system. But I'm still evaluating Ubuntu: I have yet
to offer it some new hardware to see what happens.

James