Darkelve Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 (edited) If anyone of you ever wanted to try out Libranet, here's your chance: http://www.libranet.com/trial_download.html I prob. won't download it, but let me know your experiences with it if you want. Edited July 12, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 cool! It was a great first Debian experience for me. Hope others enoy it as much as I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 What is the advantage of using Libranet over stock Debian distro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 none for the experienced. For a n00b the install is easier, nvidia, flash, jave...gui config tools bla bla bla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 This easier than Lycoris, Xandors or Linspire? I am trying to find free really easy to use distros with no cli involved at all for some of my family members. I want to try and get them into linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 This easier than Lycoris, Xandors or Linspire? I am trying to find free really easy to use distros with no cli involved at all for some of my family members. I want to try and get them into linux. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Try MEPIS for your family members. I might just do libranet. Interestingly, MEPIS uses some debian tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 So is this a good distro to try? I have wanted to try Debian ( I know this isn't Debian only Debian Based), but didn't want to try to install it( seems like a pain to install -not as bad as Gentoo seems, but thats another thread). From what I've read it Libranet seems easy to install and run. Also, is this a full version? The site says "feel free to use this tria;l version for as long as you want" Does this make it CE version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Feel free to use it as long as you like and if you decide to purchase Libranet, you may do so here. This is the full edition of Libranet 2.8.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 I got it! Check Other distros. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitor Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 I've read a bit on there site and forum. Seems to be the full thing nothing crippled. It's just already 9 months old and 3.0 underway to be released within a month. Ciao, sitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 I just may need to get my hands into Libranet again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb2 Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 Ok, so i downloaded the distro, checked the checksum all ok there on both disk images. then went to install it...... uh oh, no go. no problem with mandrake, but libranet just did not want to boot from cd? ok so i made the four!!! yes four boot floppies and proceeded to install. ok so this worked and i started the install. install went fine except i could not get the hardware 3d running at all even with xfree86 4.3 which comes with the distro. why not? works with mandrake ok? by the way i was using an ati 128ragepro chipset graphics card (expert2000 from ati). after messing around for some time and generally trying to get this distro working properly i eventually gave up and went back to mandrake. i have to point out that i am a newbie and no-one should really take too much to heart what i say. but compared to mandrake i found the installer just, well, old looking and feeling, it felt clumsy (compared to mandrake's installer). i did manage to partition across two drives (2x 6gb) root swap and usr on one drive and tmp var and home on the other, with relative ease but other than that i was not very impressed with the installer at all, even if it did work. I think overall libranet have done a reasonable job here but i think they could do a lot better for us noobs. i have managed to get suse 6.2, mandrake 7.2, 8.0, 8.2, 9.2, and 10ce installed with no problems. i have also tried storm which was a nightmare (for me anyway), and redhat 6 (i think). i would place libranets installer roughly around the suse 6.2 release of yast! anyway i suppose if i had used an nvidia graphics card i would be singing its praises but as it is i feel mandrake is the all round noobs best bet (well it is for me). just one poor ole noobs opinion. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitor Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 I've tried it as well, and generally I did like it. I agree that the installer seems way old, not really finished. I gave up for the moment because OpenOffice did not even work, and I could not get it installed with Synaptic. Thought I spent enough time on it. I think this distro has potential, but for the moment it is not near to where Mandrake is. It clearly uses less resources then Mandrake does though, even in KDE. Just my bat. Ciao, Sitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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