http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/in-praise-of-debian-5/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/in-praise-of-debian-5/#comment-48596 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:45:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/in-praise-of-debian-5/#comment-48596 The same comment was made when Lenny went stable and Etch became old stable. I still have a Knoppix 5.11 cd which I use as a general purpose trouble-shooting boot cd (based on Debian Etch and Knoppix 3.5) because it will boot and run on most old computers which will boot from CD. For the same reason, if Knoppix 5.11 won’t boot with 16M of RAM, I use Damn Small Linux (2.4.x Linux kernel).

]]> http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/in-praise-of-debian-5/#comment-48593 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:26:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/in-praise-of-debian-5/#comment-48593 [...] In praise of Debian 5 But what you can make of it is a remote music player with a slideshow visualizer, and probably for less money than it would cost you to feed your belly. [...]

]]> http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/in-praise-of-debian-5/#comment-48546 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:12:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/in-praise-of-debian-5/#comment-48546 The beauty of FOSS is that there is no restrictions on which version you are going to use. Even if it is not officially supported, you can make your own code improvements.
Something like I wrote in here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-out-loud/why-free-software-really-isnt-and-shouldnt-be-free/3617

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