Installation:
Booted from the CD into the graphical installation, which detected my Mouse, TV Card (a Hauppauge Win TV), Network Card (A Realtek 8139a) and Graphics Card (A Creative Blaster Riva TNT 2 Ultra).
The Partitioning was simple and easy as was the formatting and LILO Setup.
There were prompts to configure X Windows, Window Manager (Storm has several including KDE, Enlightenment and Gnome) and Network.
There is a choice of either a typical or custom installation - new Linux users select Typical but anyone who wants a Web, FTP or Telnet server will have to do a custom install.
The packages only took about 30 mins to install on my machine (a Celeron 433 with 128mb of RAM) and the packages included Compupic, Emacs, M Tools (for DOS Filing Systems), X Free 3.3.6, Netscape, Samba, Apache, Several FTP Servers and Internet utilities.
Booting Up:
On first boot Storm searches for a Modem (There wasn't one on my machine) then configures the installed packages and starts the Graphical Login.
To configure things Storm uses it's own SAS Configuration tool. This can configure Users and Groups, Dial Up Networking, NFS, Printers, Network, Samba, Sound (It can automatically detect and configure most sound cards - mine was an ISA Creative AWE 64) and X Windows Settings.
My Thoughts:
I could not ask any more from a Single CD Distribution. It is really easy to setup and install and comes with a brilliant selection of software - I could not think of anything more that I could possible need; And Most Importantly, it looks good!
There have been major improvements since the Rain Edition that I first tried. I think that Storm is certainly one of the best distributions currently available - easily comparable with SuSE and Red Hat and I eagerly await the next edition.
