On Friday 06 June 2003 20:03, Ben Francis wrote:
Erm, when I read this I assumed he meant Knoppix (installed after running the hdinstall script) compared to say actually installing a system from a set of installation CD's (say Redhat)
Me too. I'd also like to know myself what the major differences are between a Knoppix HDD install and an average Debian install. I'm told that Knoppix IS debian once it is installed on the Hard Disk and the debian wallpaper that keeps popping up suggests this is correct. But you need to a dist-upgrade to make it "proper" debian. In another thread MJR mentioned that some parts of Knoppix have dodgy licensing.
Well as far as I can tell the only major differences are that with the Knoppix install you have no precise control over what packages are installed, or control over what drivers are used (i.e Open/Non Open Nvidia drivers).
The dist-upgrade bit is surely just updating any older packages that were on the Knoppix CD
Naturally these are things that can be corrected later on, but what of these Licensing issues ? I didn't see that thread, can someone enlighten me please.