osama i. al-dosary

So far I like Xfld, but I’m not happy with the Knoppix stuff in Xfld, though.
Getting the time on my machine to work right was a pain. Thinking it was like Debian, I changed the /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime, and that didn’t work. Then I noticed knoppix scripts/configuration. It took me quite sometime to discover what was wrong, it tried changing different file then rebooting the machine until it worked. (There must be an easier way then to reboot, but at the time I didn’t feel like figuring that out.)
Their seemed to be an incomplete or buggy knoppix script that always set the timezone to EDT America/NewYork (/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig/.)
I changed it so that the script would always set the TZ/timezone to Asia/Riyadh.
Why is that something as basic as the timezone on the machine has to be done in different ways on different Debian-based distros? I realize that Debian doesn’t do everything that distos want done, but something as basic as setting the timezone should be standard.
I read that Ubuntu are getting ready to release an XFCE/Debian based distro. I think I’ll try it. Ubuntu seems to be very popular, I’m not sure why, though. I tried it the Live CD, and it didn’t really grab me like other Live CDs, such as Mepis or PCLinuxOS did. Maybe I should read more about it.

In the past week or so I’ve started using :: Xfld ::.

Xfld is a live Linux CD based on Debian and uses XFCE4.2 as its Desktop manager.

I’ve tried XFCE before on my Fedora machine and I liked it.

The reason I looked for a Distribution that used XFCE instead of installing it on top of Debian, was that I wanted the following:

• to use Debian instead of Fedora (deb-based instead of rpm-based
• to use XFCE instead of Gnome (Too Heavy) on my old machine
• a distribution that would save me the headache of configuring X and gdm/kdm
• a live CD so that I can try it first, and if:
  • I liked it I can then install it.
  • I really liked it, I can give it out to friends to promote Linux use.
• usually distributions have pre-built menus and bundled packages, so I don’t need to do a lot of customization