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Knoppix == debian (Score:1)

by link (3402) on 2006.06.14 11:18 (#48191) Homepage Journal

I thought Knoppix was a repackaged version of debian.

Any luck with installing solaris?

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- Re:Knoppix == debian (Score:1)
  
  by scrottie (4167)
  
  Yeah, Knoppix is repackaged Debian, but since a pile of software is installed, I don't have to think about it, just pretend it's a lab machine or something.
  
  Haven't tried Solaris and I consider it bloatware. That and I'm annoyed at them for the whole switching from BSD to SysV thing.
  
  Updates: OpenBSD does have ACPI (APM wasn't working in this version of Phoenix BIOS -- I blame Phoenix, not OpenBSD -- the whole everyone-breaks-APM-as-ACPI-comes-out-and-Windows-magically-knows-how-to-use-eve ry-broken-A

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