Re: [FarsiLinux] New member & suggestions

[Matthias Laabs]

> - Libranet is quite interesting and a good ditro to go with. But uncertain
> licensing, no sources and hence no advantage compared with Debian.

I only installed Libranet so here is what i think:

installation went without problems, hardware detections works.
but my touchpad wasn't recognized (probably would be when no mouse 
is present) and dri module was missing in XF86 config - so openGL turns
out as slideshow. After restart screen resolution was wrong.
Installs lots of packages that i deselected (probably because of dependencies)
default window manager is icewm...
no choice which desktop manager is used (comes with gdm -> bad can't even 
restart xserver).
the only thing libranet contributes is the installer and a menu that can start 
some config programs and some install scripts.
I don't think the price is reasonable. Knoppix or Morphix is also debian 
based, has good hw detection and it is FREE like in "free beer".

For now I would recommand to translate the knoppix hd installation: it works
with gtk2 right now so we "just" need translation and put qtparted into it
instead of cfdisk. qtparted looks really promising - i will try to test it 
with various filesystems soon. As it is qt based it should be translatable...
I didn't take a look at Morphix yet...

For the long run I do not think that libranet offers more than debian itself.
The new installer will be (hopefully at some time) graphical - comes with a 
powerful hw-detection and the libranet admin menu is just a couple of buttons
starting scripts or programs like aptitude...


tell me what you think!

greets,

matthias