Eco, would never laugh at you, well maybe the avitar

I have been distro hopping (if not yet shopping) myself. I've got about a half dozen on the shelf, mostly debian derivatives and running a lt morphix on a very old machine for experience with the lighter GUIs.

I keep comparing everything to Knoppix. Besides the wonderful hd install script, you can't argue with something that just installs and WORKS. I have kanotix here now on the other partition and although I have finally gotten lm sensors limping along (another thread) I have battled with all the basics I took for granted in knoppix. Dialup, printing, etc - I had to go way beyond the simple configuring job I needed in knoppix to get these things going in Kanotix. Oh and sound. Eeeeek alsa. I have to rip that out and think I remember you mentioning doing the same somewhere in a thread.

I keep a close eye on linux groups in usenet and knew about the very hard debian install as well as the pitfalls with mandrake community 10. Man's appeal to me was the the new KDE (yeah, call me a sucker for a pretty face) more than even the 2.6 kernel - I don't have any hardware that would have to be served by that. But I have now a taste of the 3.2 KDE from kanotix and am no longer chomping at the bit for new knoppix.Current knoppix is just fine and dandy for me. It installs. It works. Well, what more do I really need? Yeah, a good script to install the source like Kano's for kanotix- THAT I would happiily pay for in knoppix. I think it would be darn close to perfect then.

Nish - retired kernel compiler