[Discussion] [Linux] os/2 on linux

[Felmon Davis]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Thomas Clayton wrote:

> --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Felmon Davis <davisf at union.edu> wrote:
> 
> From: Felmon Davis <davisf at union.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] [Linux] os/2 on linux
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12:06 PM
> 
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, jim.scott at scottelectronic.com wrote:
> 
> > ** Reply to note from Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:53:44 -0800 (PST)
> > 
> > Hi Tom!
> > 
> > I had tried several different different installs: Free-BSD, Suse, 
> > CentOS, [U]buntu, Knoppix, and more. 
> 
> well, 'Free-BSD' is not Linux, right? but my real question is did you 
> actually _install_ Knoppix? I did that once and got some warnings from 
> some (knowledgeable) fellows on some forum that it is not meant to be 
> installed, just used as a live-CD.
> 
> *****************************************
> Original versions of Knoppix WERE to be ONLY run from the COD. Later ones 'allow' installation.
> Why mess with a newbie's head? 
> They'd learned something about Linux via the Knoppix distro
>   SOoo let them run with it from HDD, too.
> *****************************************

I am still confused. what is the source of the above quotation and why 
is 'allow' in quotation-marks (or as we call them in my biz, 
'scare-quotes')?

on the face of it, this seems compatible with what I said - you _can_ 
install it but it is ill-advised. if what I was told is right, it is 
especially ill-advised for newbies. my information may be out-of-date 
though.

my experience with it was not unqualifiedly good. as I mentioned, 
sometimes one had to fool around to upgrade or install new stuff and 
it was confusing which repositories to use. it installed tons of stuff 
which at first I liked since I could 'shop around' clickety-clicking 
but I soon longed for a leaner system. 

basically, I ended up dropping it and installing Debian Lenny. 

F.

> as I recall, there were some problems upgrading stuff and I also 
> didn't want all the software that came along with the install. 
> 
> ... < snip > ...
> 
> Felmon
> 
> 

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Felmon Davis 

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