why I didn't choose GRML

[propaine]

Thanks very much!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
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.
>
>
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> Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc
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