Thanks very much! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: why I didn't choose GRML > * propaine <propaine at verizon.net> [060628 10:14]: > > Since I'm considering whether to upgrade Fedora or switch to something else, > > can you tell me why you decided that GRML is not for you? Thanks! > > > I'd be happy to. But first let me say that I like GRML linux very much > and am not interested in starting any sort of distro war here. > > I don't just use Linux as an end user. I run my own mail server, web > server, ssh server, etc, you get the picture. Right now it seems that > because GRML is based on Debian unstable there are sometimes problems. > Packages are constantly updated which is the nature of the beast and > from time to time a package might break your system. Because I run a > production server I cannot run an unstable os. I've used Debian before > and liked it very much and even considerred going back to it. However > one of the main concerns here was time. I know how to install Fedora > very quickly and needed to get up and running as quick as possible. Here > is where GRML originally came into the picture. I love how you can > simply pop the cd in and have a running Linux system right away. On > three machies I tried it on both using software and hardware speakup > synthesizers they worked from the get go. So, it's not GRML's fault > really. It's just for my particular needs I need something which is not > unstable in the way of packages. > > When I ran grml2hd it gave me fits and I had to manually tweak the > script to make it possible for me to install. I forget the line number > but it had to do with the code which checks the hard drive space > available. There was a /1024 line which was throwing it off. So, I took > that line out and hard coded in the space value so the script would > continue. > > On top of that dovecot had to be tweaked quite a bit to get pop logins > working right and really, the list goes on. > > This is not to say that GRML is bad and in fact I really love their mutt > configureation style. I've actually used some of those settings for my > muttrc now. I also like the fact that it boots so quickly although I > realize that GRML is not the only one so take that for what it's worth. > > Hope this helps. > > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.5/377 - Release Date: 6/27/2006 > >