On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:04:27 +0000 Richard <richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi > just got blasted by the list politzi for posting on deb-boot. > I re-enabled sid after a complete reload of wheezy to make sure my > ex-friend could load without problems all the Ham apps he uses. > After doing all the work for him , he says he's read the debian is no > good as it needs lots of patches. > I then got a load of diatribe, > microsoft based. Two word reply: "Patch Tuesday". On the second Tuesday of every month, MS releases its patches. They display no sense of urgency, and I've only ever known them to rush out a patch twice, and one of those occasions was for a years-old graphics file format which could contain and execute arbitrary code. MS, having designed that format, clearly knew this all along, and rushed out a patch when it became public knowledge. Find the current MS Patch Tuesday advisory, open each entry and count how many entries make use of the phrase 'remote code execution'. The current production Windows usually gets at least one a month fixed, often half a dozen. Your friend does have automatic updates enabled on his Windows machines, doesn't he? And patches for Windows applications other than Office (Java, Adobe Reader etc.) are in addition to these, whereas all Debian packages are upgraded through the same process at the same time. How often do Windows anti-virus packages update? How many times *each* *day*? Next, MS do not produce an equivalent to sid. At least, there is no publicly available equivalent and I do not believe MS would devote the necessary resources to maintaining a continuously-usable (sometimes only just) alpha OS. There is not even an in-place upgrade available from the 2003 (XP-based) to the 2008/11 (Vista/W7-based) OSes. MS does usually make the beta of the next production version available, but few people outside the MS equivalent of Linux newsgroups choose to use it. Your friend should run a beta Windows from its first availability to compare it with Testing, currently wheezy. > > > Right one winge off my chest on to the next. > > I upgraded from sid all of gnome to 3.2.1 , gnome-shell 3.2.1-8 > Now it runs in fall back mode only, has anyone else found this ? > I've tried looking in /var/log/gdm3, but its like looking in a > haystack for a needle. ideas please Yes. Gnome3 requires hardware 3D acceleration, even if you only ever run a text editor. It has to be able to do the whizzy 3D effects with application windows that Windows users seem to require. Check to see whether your video hardware has drivers with 3D acceleration, and if so, that you have them installed, and if so, that you have them *enabled*. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111230194315.32432...@jretrading.com
