Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

From: Wolfgang Lonien (wjlonien_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/02/03

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    Edward Murrell wrote:

    > [Debian as a Windoze replacement]

    Hi Ed (and Joe of course :-P),

    as a replacement for Win, you should try Knoppix. Really. It runs straight
    from CD, and it has a very good hardware detection. You can get it at

    http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/

    After installing it to disk with knx-hdinstall, you might want to change
    the /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable, followed by an apt-get update and
    apt-get dist-upgrade.
     
    > The hardware is as follows;
    > Athlon 1600, 256 MB DDR, nForce1 board, nForce1 sound, AGP GF4MX,
    > generic networking (Realtek I think).

    For the nforce-board (I have one also, tho my wife and me use regular
    Debian), get the drivers from the nvidia page. Sound will work out of the
    box (even with Knoppix, which uses the i810 drivers), but 3D gaming will be
    a bit slow with the XFree 'nv' drivers. The nvidia script makes all the
    appropriate changes.

    After all the upgrading, you'll have Sid, which works great.

    HTH,
    wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien 

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