On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:11:01 +0530 pavithran <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2 December 2011 23:33, john lewis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Debian isn't perfect and changing to Gnome 3 is IMHO a bad choice > > but XFCE allows me to set up the desktop the way I want and not how > > some geeky developer thinks it should be. Not all of us are > > tablet/touch screen users!! > I have used and liked Unity during the days of Ubuntu netbook remix . > Compared to unity as of today I think gnome 3 is quite usable . But > yeah the old easy menu thing is missing . > > > With luck the Mint modifications to Gnome 3 will filter back into > > Debian. > Same here would love to see mint stuff coming back to ints grand > mother/mother debian . I have spoken to some DD 's about LMDE and the > role it plays strengthening the debian system , as usual they were not > amused :( > > > I have run the Mint Debian Edition 'live' on my spare system > > and it looks quite good. It installed OK but seems reluctant to > > 'aptitude safe-upgrade' the 488 packages needing an upgrade plus the > > 50 new packages it thinks I need ;-) > > Hey be careful with LMDE and update . You will get into a mess . They > do something like update packs > http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1836 hello Pavi I didn't get into any bother updating LMDE but yesterday decided to go back to Debian on the spare system and did a net-install of squeeze then upgraded that to testing aka wheezy. So am now running gnome 3 classic on that system. Classic because the built-in graphics won't run the full Gnome 3. I thought at first I'd have to go back to squeeze because as it is installed classic is barely configurable, but installing gnome-tweak-tool seems to have solved that to some extent. I have one peculiar problem though in as much as my favourite browser, opera*, won't run yet the same version on my amd 64 bit system seems OK, but I am not going to take the risk of restarting it if I can avoid it ;-) This was one of the reasons for switching back from LMDE as this problem happened there first. It didn't make any difference whether I got opera from the mint or the opera-deb repositories, it still started then failed to run and threw up an error message. I might try upgrading again, from testing to unstable - after all the reason I have a spare system is to allow me to play with things without risking my main box too much (if running unstable can be called risk-free but I've been using it for years with only the occasional blip usually fixed in a couple of days at most). *Opera_11.60.1185_i386.deb I'll take this opportunity to wish everybody in Hants LUG an enjoyable festive season and hope that the New Year won't bring anyone any nasty surprises. -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
