Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by SelfishGene:
This is a bit OT, but how do you like Knoppix? It should be arriving tomorrow. Im getting it to kill an evil Linux partition Fdisk refuses to handle.

Well, as a long-time UNIX programmer, I'm somewhat dismayed by the "User Friendly" desktop display Knoppix has. It screws things up both for the UNIX/Linux people -and- the Windows people it targets. (No easy/visible way to change the screen resolution via GUI, and no mention of what the command line configuration program would be.) The GUI is dumbed down overly much, even compared to Gnome (and I would hope, stock KDE).

That said - it did do an admirable job of detecting and automatically working with video cards, USB devices (albeit my USB mouse was very slow & jerky), onboard ethernet, router, etc. Quite painless to be back Online after booting.


For my own purposes, though, I went ahead and downloaded RH's Fedora iso's overnight and will look at doing a proper Linux install on a newly empty partition. Hopefully it won't trash the other partitions on that drive.