[wellylug] copy of mandrake / suse

[Wayne Koorts]

> I tried Knoppix off the CD. Its very sluggish.

Probably because everything has to be loaded real-time off the CD.  Bear 
in mind that you can install Knoppix (or 'freeze' it as I like to say). 
  Once it is installed to disk it is very snappy indeed.

> If you are looking to check out a live CD, I'd suggest Gentoo 2004.2. But
> nothing better than Mandrake or Suse to start with Linux.

The Gentoo CD is good if you want something more advanced.  SuSE has a 
live CD as well if you'd like to try that.  Otherwise I think Knoppix is 
a good one to try.  It has about 2GB worth of software when uncompressed 
and it fits onto a 700MB CD.  Version 3.5 of Knoppix was a special DVD 
version which included tonnes more software, including GNOME.

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Regards,
Wayne Koorts
Registered Linux User #330079
www.wkoorts.com - Updated 2004/08/15