Subj : Linspire 4.5
To   : CHRONOS
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Sun Apr 24 2005 07:42 pm

>  > One thing I'd worry about is what branch of Debian they are based off of.
>  > If you don't point to the right branch of the tree, you might break some
>  > of the dependencies, I would think.
>
> So I might be better going with debian, slack or another version of linux...
> and learn from the ground up.

Well, you could probably give Linspire a shot.  It'd be easier to set up
than plain-jane Debian.  Since I have never tried it, I am not sure how
difficult it is to figure out which Debian branch repositories to point it
to, but I am sure there are folks out there who know.

When I first got into Linux, I bought a bunch of the $1.98-$2.98 CDs from
linuxcentral.com and played around with them.  I found that Red Hat, and
distros based on it, would not properly identify my video card, and that
X therefore would not work.  The one exception was Caldera, which was fine.
I found I had better luck with Slack, and with Debian-based distros, like
Correl.

Because Correl had just stopped supporting Linux, I decided to move on.  I
bought a copy of Libranet Linux, which was then < $30, and set it up.  It
was easier to set up than most of the other distros, and worked pretty good.
It is also Debian based.

Mike
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