[ILUG] To ubuntu or not to ubuntu

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 14:13, jm at jmason.org wrote:

> > I've thought about Knoppix, which seems to run KDE by default,
> > but I've never worked out how one gets it on the hard disk.
>
> oh god no ;)  Knoppix has some awful stuff, like this in /etc/profile :
>
>   [ "$PS1" -a -f /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion
>   PS1="\u@\h:\w\\$ "
>   alias la="ls -la --color=auto"
>
>
> - 1. /etc/profile is run by shells other than bash.
>
> - 2. the presence of a set $PS1 is used to indicate whether a shell is
>   interactive or not. setting it means that all scripts using that test
>   are broken.
>
> - 3. bash_completion is similarly a horrible hack that shouldn't be part
>   of the standard /bin/sh startup sequence.
>
> One thing about distros is that you should at least be able to count
> on sane stuff in /etc/profile. ;)

Ok, I won't try putting it on the hard disk,
but you must admit this guy Knopper is a genius
at getting strange machines to boot.

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