On April 12, 2004 10:54 am, Trollcollect wrote: > Hello list, > > after 3 days of twiddling with a "recent" copy of > debians woody release i need to vent a bit of the > anger and frustration that this distribution has > caused. > > I want to start with saying that i was a strong > advocate of debian compared to distributions such as > RedHat and SuSE. Being a UNIX admin professionally > (Solaris mainly), i felt home on a debian system > pretty quick, and the packaging method was unique > among all linux deriatives i have seen. Also i used to > like debians approach of stability before > bleeding-edge stuff. > > However as i have to install a small network now (7 > WS's and one server), i have to reconsider this > assessment. I downloaded woody (2 failed attempts to > get an installation CD with the new jigdo method). > What i got after installation was > - a 2.2 Kernel without ext3 support > - a KDE 2.0 > overall totally outdated and useless versions of > libraries and software.
You installed stable. You really don't want to run stable if you're looking for a desktop system. Perhaps debian should put a note to that effect on the website. Add the unstable sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then use aptitude (apt-get install aptitude) to upgrade KDE. ~leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]