[svlug] RPM from Gentoo

[M Wendall]

You might check Borders or Barnes&Noble for a copy of Marcel Gagne's 
"Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye." This is for 
newbies, and excellent, and there's a modified distro of Knoppix that is 
really *good,* with things like Open Office, so you can actually use it 
for something to try it out. It even finds my Supra USB modem.
Margaret Wendall

Kim wrote:

>On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:25 pm, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
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>>On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:14:08 -0800
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>>BTW I saw that on the monitor thread someone mentioned knoppix... it
>>seems another promising distro.
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>Knoppix is basicly a live cd version of debian. Knoppix has pretty good 
>hardware detection too.
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>Even though its intended to be run directly from the CD, there is a relativly 
>painless way to install it permantly to your hard drive. Don't know the 
>details, I've never done it.
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>But once its on your hard disk you should be fine using apt-get to install all 
>the binary packages and there dependancies quite quickly. You might just be 
>fine if you used the normal debian distro and apt-get too. 
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>I really have very little experiance with debian so there is probably more to 
>it than that. There seems to be a lot of debian specific docs to read. Or 
>just grab a copy and try it.
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>Kim
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