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  • I thought Knoppix was a repackaged version of debian.

    Any luck with installing solaris?

    • 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-ACPI-implementation conspiracy thing and all), but ACPI locks up on boot (also blame Phoenix). Trying to get suspend-to-disk-via-APM to work with the file in the DOS partition thingie...

      What I really need to do is get my hands on one of those $100 a-laptop-for-every-child laptops. They screen and keyboard aren't that much smaller than the CF-R1 anyway...

      -scott
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