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Default Re: Talking on Linux - 06-03-2005

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Originally Posted by Rick
The distro is sure real, I switched to it recently
Its debian sarge based I believe, so a good package managment system with non-outdated packeges
If you want a cd though, you have to hurry since they stop doing that soon.
I just received the CD (actually it's 2 CDs, 1 live CD and 1 install CD), and I don't think they will do this forever as each CD costs less than 1 euro, but the shipping cost is more than 10 euros (from Netherlands to China)

Pros:
- It's a fully functional GNU/Linux system based on Debian
- Includes a live CD (similar as Knoppix), so you can try it out without installing it on your Windows box
- Also includes some popular free software for Windows in the CD (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, etc)
- Nothing but NVidia's Video driver and several modules officially included with the kernel named Linux (but stripped by Debian, e.g. Keyspan driver) are non-free.

Cons:
- Don't know the root password of the Live CD
- No KDE
- Live CD has no GCC, so you can't compile bots with it

overall it's still a nice distro

Last edited by Whistler; 15-12-2009 at 03:00..
  
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