Re: Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-31 Thread Shervin Emami
 Thanks everyone for your help, it does indeed look like I'm having
graphics issues thanks to Optimus.
 Plasma suddenly died on me just now (or atleast that's what I thought
happened) and after looking into
 Xorg.0.log I saw that actually my Intel GPU had crashed! Hence why I
couldn't see Plasma decorations.
 So I'll email that pkg-nvidia-devel list, maybe the Bumblebee guys are
interested and if not I'll send my
 crash report to Intel.

Even though it was my Intel GPU that was crashing every day, not my NVIDIA
GPU, I switched to Bumblebee in wheezy-backports 2 weeks ago and now my
computer hasn't crashed at all since then! I even re-installed PulseAudio
successfully, so I'm now a very happy Debian Stable KDE user! Thanks
everyone for your help 2 weeks ago!

Cheers,
Shervin Emami.


Re: Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-17 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Monday 15 July 2013 11:24:28 Shervin Emami wrote:
 I'm using the NVIDIA driver from Debian Stable, but since I have Optimus
 (both an Intel  NVIDIA GPU), it would be using the Intel driver for normal
 display, and I made it use Mesa as the default GL library for this reason.
 So maybe my problems are related to Optimus, I wouldn't be surprised :-(

I wouldn't be surprised if Optimus is indeed one/the source of your problems.
To determine whether that is indeed the case, you'd probably want to write an 
email to the nvidia devel ML 
(http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-nvidia-devel) for 
that.
AFAIK the bumblebee maintainers are also subscribed to that list.

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Re: Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-17 Thread Shervin Emami
Thanks everyone for your help, it does indeed look like I'm having graphics
issues thanks to Optimus. Plasma suddenly died on me just now (or atleast
that's what I thought happened) and after looking into Xorg.0.log I saw
that actually my Intel GPU had crashed! Hence why I couldn't see Plasma
decorations. So I'll email that pkg-nvidia-devel list, maybe the Bumblebee
guys are interested and if not I'll send my crash report to Intel.

Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Diederik de Haas didi.deb...@cknow.orgwrote:

 On Monday 15 July 2013 11:24:28 Shervin Emami wrote:
  I'm using the NVIDIA driver from Debian Stable, but since I have Optimus
  (both an Intel  NVIDIA GPU), it would be using the Intel driver for
 normal
  display, and I made it use Mesa as the default GL library for this
 reason.
  So maybe my problems are related to Optimus, I wouldn't be surprised :-(

 I wouldn't be surprised if Optimus is indeed one/the source of your
 problems.
 To determine whether that is indeed the case, you'd probably want to write
 an
 email to the nvidia devel ML (
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-nvidia-devel)
 for that.
 AFAIK the bumblebee maintainers are also subscribed to that list.

 HTH

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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-16 Thread Alan Ezust
I use skype and pulseaudio in Debian Wheezy. I just recently started using
pulseaudio and
I like it, especially since I have 2 sound cards and I like to have System
and Skype sounds go through my analog output while my music going through a
digital output.

What I have observed, however, is that sometimes pulseaudio just stops
working, and when that happens
any other program that needs sound just freezes instead of making sounds.
It becomes a cascading effect of frozen apps that won't work even after
restarting them.
It happens often when I receive an IM (which results in a system sound)
while I am talking on Skype.

I believe this is a bug in how Skype uses Pulse, or a bug in Pulse, but in
either case,
there is an instability in this particular combination of software that
forces me to either logout/login again to KDE, or to reboot. Restarting
pulse doesn't do it for me.

I did not observe this instability until I started using pulseaudio. If
Skype uses Alsa directly, it seems to be more stable.




On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Shervin Emami shervin.em...@gmail.comwrote:

 I'm using the NVIDIA driver from Debian Stable, but since I have Optimus
 (both an Intel  NVIDIA GPU), it would be using the Intel driver for normal
 display, and I made it use Mesa as the default GL library for this reason.
 So maybe my problems are related to Optimus, I wouldn't be surprised :-( I
 work for NVIDIA and yet even I have numerous software  hardware troubles
 due to Optimus! I'll try using the latest NVIDIA driver, supposedly it has
 some Optimus support now so it doesn't need Bumblebee anymore.


 Cheers,
 Shervin Emami.
 http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html


 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Facundo Aguilera budin...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Shervin Emami shervin.em...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I'm even using the Debian Stable packages for
  NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL.
 
  ...

 Are you using the nvidia driver or nouveau? I had similar problems
 with nouveau and desktop effects enabled.


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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread David Smith

On 07/15/2013 01:14 PM, Shervin Emami wrote:

Hi,

Any recommendations on how to get more stability? Because I really 
want to stick with Debian KDE for long-term.



As far as iceweasel crashing, I think that's really bizarre.. I use it 
everyday for years on lots of different hardware and it's *never* 
crashed for me.  To add to that, the Mozilla/Iceweasel/Firefox team have 
been very good at blacklisting graphics drivers that don't support 
hardware accelerated webgl, etc.  So you really shouldn't be getting 
crashes for any reason.  I would suggest investigating the possibility 
of hardware failure (memtest86+, cpu/gpu stress tests, etc).


I've also found repeatable bugs that crash apps such as Kate and 
Inkscape but when I start to file bug reports I realize I shouldn't 
because Debian Stable is using old versions of the software and these 
bugs were fixed in later versions


Yes, I've had repeatable crashes with Kate related to 
collapsing/expanding sections of code in .patch files which I found and 
reported to upstream back before Debian Wheezy was even frozen. It took 
almost a year and 50+ duplicate bug reports before it was fixed by Kate 
devs, and the fix missed the Wheezy freeze window. That's just the way 
things are sometimes with upstream, you either learn to use the software 
in a way that doesn't cause it to crash until they fix it, you learn to 
fix it yourself and submit a patch, or you use something else because 
there are about a million great alternatives to Kate.


As a Debian user for 10+ years, I would suggest just running Debian 
stable for now and grab newer versions of software if you need it from 
wheezy-backports (if available).


Sometimes you can apt-get source the package source from unstable and 
recompile it yourself for stable.  I did that just now for Inkscape 
0.48.4-1 (unstable) and the package installs and runs perfectly fine on 
Wheezy. If your troubles in inkscape still aren't fixed, make sure you 
get them reported to upstream.


-David


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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
Thanks Rubin  David for the replies.

Unfortunately I need Skype, VirtualBox, Oracle JDK and NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit,
I need those many times each day for my work as a remote developer. I'd
love to get rid of Flash, so just now I switched YouTube to use WebM
instead (go to http://www.youtube.com/html5;) as a start. But when I
experience browser crashes, it's not while doing anything strange like
watching youtube so I don't think Flash is my problem. Maybe when Dolphin
or Plasma or Iceweasel crash it really is a problem with my RAM hardware (I
put 16GB RAM in my laptop since i often build Android from source and often
use WinXP through VirtualBox), possibly related to the fact I use 5GB of
RAM as a ramdisk where I do lots of my temp stuff in.

For the repeatable bugs I found in Kate  Inkscape, you guys convinced me I
should file the bug reports and then find ways to live around the bugs for
the near future. I sent a message to this group recently about the Kate
crash because I wasn't sure how to report it, but no-one replied: 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2013/06/msg00014.html;. For the Inkscape
crash i tested it on Mint KDE 14, Mint KDE 13 and ArchLinux and none of
those crashed, only Debian Stable, and only while using OpenGL as the KWin
renderer (ie: it doesn't crash while using XRender), so I'm also a bit
confused about whether to file a bug to Debian or to Inkscape, since it
seems to have been fixed in recent versions of Inkscape.

I haven't looked into back-porting packages yet since I read on the Debian
FAQ that you shouldn't mix both Stable and Testing in your apt source list,
but now I realize back-porting is a way to compile new Testing or SID
software packages into the equivalent of Stable packages without modifying
my apt sources (or am I wrong?). So from you guys it sounds like I should
back-port Inkscape  Skype  NVIDIA driver  CUDA Toolkit, since it is
possible that my sudden Plasma crashes or Inkscape crashes are related to
the Wheezy's older NVIDIA display driver interacting strangely with Optimus
technology (dual GPU).




Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:40 PM, David Smith sidic...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 07/15/2013 01:14 PM, Shervin Emami wrote:

 Hi,


 Any recommendations on how to get more stability? Because I really want
 to stick with Debian KDE for long-term.


  As far as iceweasel crashing, I think that's really bizarre.. I use it
 everyday for years on lots of different hardware and it's *never* crashed
 for me.  To add to that, the Mozilla/Iceweasel/Firefox team have been very
 good at blacklisting graphics drivers that don't support hardware
 accelerated webgl, etc.  So you really shouldn't be getting crashes for any
 reason.  I would suggest investigating the possibility of hardware failure
 (memtest86+, cpu/gpu stress tests, etc).


  I've also found repeatable bugs that crash apps such as Kate and Inkscape
 but when I start to file bug reports I realize I shouldn't because Debian
 Stable is using old versions of the software and these bugs were fixed in
 later versions


 Yes, I've had repeatable crashes with Kate related to collapsing/expanding
 sections of code in .patch files which I found and reported to upstream
 back before Debian Wheezy was even frozen. It took almost a year and 50+
 duplicate bug reports before it was fixed by Kate devs, and the fix missed
 the Wheezy freeze window. That's just the way things are sometimes with
 upstream, you either learn to use the software in a way that doesn't cause
 it to crash until they fix it, you learn to fix it yourself and submit a
 patch, or you use something else because there are about a million great
 alternatives to Kate.

 As a Debian user for 10+ years, I would suggest just running Debian stable
 for now and grab newer versions of software if you need it from
 wheezy-backports (if available).

 Sometimes you can apt-get source the package source from unstable and
 recompile it yourself for stable.  I did that just now for Inkscape
 0.48.4-1 (unstable) and the package installs and runs perfectly fine on
 Wheezy. If your troubles in inkscape still aren't fixed, make sure you get
 them reported to upstream.

 -David




Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2013-07-15, Shervin Emami wrote:

 I experience crashes around once per day, either as a software like
 Iceweasel or Kate or Dolphin crashing or as KDE/Plasma crashing  requiring
 me to hit Alt+PrtSc+K to close X  log back in to KDE. I've also found

If Plasma Desktop crashes it can usually be restarted using Alt-F2 and typing 
plasma-desktop.

Hasn't happend for me in ages, so maybe it is one of the applets you are 
using?

Cheers,
Kevin


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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Rubin Abdi
Shervin Emami wrote, On 2013-07-15 00:25:
 Unfortunately I need Skype, VirtualBox, Oracle JDK and NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit,
 I need those many times each day for my work as a remote developer. I'd
 love to get rid of Flash, so just now I switched YouTube to use WebM
 instead (go to http://www.youtube.com/html5;) as a start. But when I
 experience browser crashes, it's not while doing anything strange like
 watching youtube so I don't think Flash is my problem. Maybe when Dolphin
 or Plasma or Iceweasel crash it really is a problem with my RAM hardware (I
 put 16GB RAM in my laptop since i often build Android from source and often
 use WinXP through VirtualBox), possibly related to the fact I use 5GB of
 RAM as a ramdisk where I do lots of my temp stuff in.

First option is since you've already got VirtualBox setup, setup a VM
for Skype and other tricky software.

Flash is EVERYWHERE, no joke. When you're running your web browser, open
up a terminal window and run top (or better yet htop) and sort by CPU
usage. You'll see Flash pop up a bunch, not just YouTube vids. There are
some great plugins that'll ask you before starting up any Flash content,
might be worth checking out.

If you want to test your ram, apt-get install memtest86+, reboot, select
it in GRUB, and let that thing run over night.

 For the repeatable bugs I found in Kate  Inkscape, you guys convinced me I
 should file the bug reports and then find ways to live around the bugs for
 the near future. I sent a message to this group recently about the Kate
 crash because I wasn't sure how to report it, but no-one replied: 
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2013/06/msg00014.html;. For the Inkscape
 crash i tested it on Mint KDE 14, Mint KDE 13 and ArchLinux and none of
 those crashed, only Debian Stable, and only while using OpenGL as the KWin
 renderer (ie: it doesn't crash while using XRender), so I'm also a bit
 confused about whether to file a bug to Debian or to Inkscape, since it
 seems to have been fixed in recent versions of Inkscape.

Unless told specifically to do so by a project community, file bugs in a
tracker over sending an issue to a mailing list. Mailing lists are good
for disucssing current thing, bug trackers are good for recording a
history and it's eventually resolution (or ignorance). Unless you want
to ask a community if you shouldn't file a bug (never ask if you should,
because you'll fall into that no one will reply trap).

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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
Yes I do this to restart Plasma when it crashes every few days. I am using
the NetworkManager applet, and that is well known to have many issues, so
that might be partly to blame. But other times when my computer crashes,
not even Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Alt+BkSpace work, and sometimes Ctrl+Alt+1
works so I can kill a bad app, but often the only key combo that works at
all is Alt+PrtSc+K!


Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.atwrote:

 On Monday, 2013-07-15, Shervin Emami wrote:

  I experience crashes around once per day, either as a software like
  Iceweasel or Kate or Dolphin crashing or as KDE/Plasma crashing 
 requiring
  me to hit Alt+PrtSc+K to close X  log back in to KDE. I've also found

 If Plasma Desktop crashes it can usually be restarted using Alt-F2 and
 typing
 plasma-desktop.

 Hasn't happend for me in ages, so maybe it is one of the applets you are
 using?

 Cheers,
 Kevin



Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Raúl Sánchez Siles
  Hoi:

  I'd say the problem may well be somewhere in the graphics stack. Once you have
a crash it's quite convenient knowing exactly where it happenned and getting a
backtrace of it.

  Check ~/.xsession-erros  and also Xorg log (/var/log/Xorg.[01].log or
/var/log/Xorg.[01].log.old if a new X instance already fired up), sometimes
kdm.log also helps.

  If you want further information, install relevant -dbg packages: xserver, x 
video
driver, mesa and drm. Once you have this installed make sure you enabled core
dumps. I do this adding ulimit -c unlimited somewhere at the begginning of
/etc/init.d/kdm script. If X crashes you'll get a core dump at /etc/X11/core
which you can later analyze with gdb /etc/X11/core $(which Xorg)

  Good luck with this. Regards,

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:39:07AM -0700, Shervin Emami wrote:
 Yes I do this to restart Plasma when it crashes every few days. I am using the
 NetworkManager applet, and that is well known to have many issues, so that
 might be partly to blame. But other times when my computer crashes, not even
 Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Alt+BkSpace work, and sometimes Ctrl+Alt+1 works so I can
 kill a bad app, but often the only key combo that works at all is Alt+PrtSc+K!
 
 
 Cheers,
 Shervin Emami.
 http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html
 
 
 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote:
 
 On Monday, 2013-07-15, Shervin Emami wrote:
 
  I experience crashes around once per day, either as a software like
  Iceweasel or Kate or Dolphin crashing or as KDE/Plasma crashing 
 requiring
  me to hit Alt+PrtSc+K to close X  log back in to KDE. I've also found
 
 If Plasma Desktop crashes it can usually be restarted using Alt-F2 and
 typing
 plasma-desktop.
 
 Hasn't happend for me in ages, so maybe it is one of the applets you are
 using?
 
 Cheers,
 Kevin
 
 

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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Marco Valli
In data domenica 14 luglio 2013 22:14:41, Shervin Emami ha scritto:
 Any recommendations on how to get more stability?

Did you try to create a new account?
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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
 First option is since you've already got VirtualBox setup, setup a VM
for Skype and other tricky software.

I already tried following numerous forums about getting microphone  webcam
to work in VirtualBox, some people have been successful but I just couldn't
get it to work for WinXP or Ubuntu guests, maybe since I'm using ALSA
instead of PulseAudio. So I'll give up for now and stick with native Skype
on Linux.


 Flash is EVERYWHERE, no joke.

Yeah I know, I use Flashblock in my browser to keep Flash at bay.


 file bugs in a tracker over sending an issue to a mailing list.

No worries, but should I report the bug to Debian or to the apps (Inkscape
and KDE/Kate), since I am technically using outdated versions of these
software?


Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Rubin Abdi ru...@starset.net wrote:

 Shervin Emami wrote, On 2013-07-15 00:25:
  Unfortunately I need Skype, VirtualBox, Oracle JDK and NVIDIA CUDA
 Toolkit,
  I need those many times each day for my work as a remote developer. I'd
  love to get rid of Flash, so just now I switched YouTube to use WebM
  instead (go to http://www.youtube.com/html5;) as a start. But when I
  experience browser crashes, it's not while doing anything strange like
  watching youtube so I don't think Flash is my problem. Maybe when Dolphin
  or Plasma or Iceweasel crash it really is a problem with my RAM hardware
 (I
  put 16GB RAM in my laptop since i often build Android from source and
 often
  use WinXP through VirtualBox), possibly related to the fact I use 5GB of
  RAM as a ramdisk where I do lots of my temp stuff in.

 First option is since you've already got VirtualBox setup, setup a VM
 for Skype and other tricky software.

 Flash is EVERYWHERE, no joke. When you're running your web browser, open
 up a terminal window and run top (or better yet htop) and sort by CPU
 usage. You'll see Flash pop up a bunch, not just YouTube vids. There are
 some great plugins that'll ask you before starting up any Flash content,
 might be worth checking out.

 If you want to test your ram, apt-get install memtest86+, reboot, select
 it in GRUB, and let that thing run over night.

  For the repeatable bugs I found in Kate  Inkscape, you guys convinced
 me I
  should file the bug reports and then find ways to live around the bugs
 for
  the near future. I sent a message to this group recently about the Kate
  crash because I wasn't sure how to report it, but no-one replied: 
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2013/06/msg00014.html;. For the
 Inkscape
  crash i tested it on Mint KDE 14, Mint KDE 13 and ArchLinux and none of
  those crashed, only Debian Stable, and only while using OpenGL as the
 KWin
  renderer (ie: it doesn't crash while using XRender), so I'm also a bit
  confused about whether to file a bug to Debian or to Inkscape, since it
  seems to have been fixed in recent versions of Inkscape.

 Unless told specifically to do so by a project community, file bugs in a
 tracker over sending an issue to a mailing list. Mailing lists are good
 for disucssing current thing, bug trackers are good for recording a
 history and it's eventually resolution (or ignorance). Unless you want
 to ask a community if you shouldn't file a bug (never ask if you should,
 because you'll fall into that no one will reply trap).

 --
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 ru...@starset.net




Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Facundo Aguilera
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Shervin Emami shervin.em...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm even using the Debian Stable packages for
 NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL.

 ...

Are you using the nvidia driver or nouveau? I had similar problems
with nouveau and desktop effects enabled.


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Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-15 Thread Shervin Emami
I'm using the NVIDIA driver from Debian Stable, but since I have Optimus
(both an Intel  NVIDIA GPU), it would be using the Intel driver for normal
display, and I made it use Mesa as the default GL library for this reason.
So maybe my problems are related to Optimus, I wouldn't be surprised :-( I
work for NVIDIA and yet even I have numerous software  hardware troubles
due to Optimus! I'll try using the latest NVIDIA driver, supposedly it has
some Optimus support now so it doesn't need Bumblebee anymore.


Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/openCV.html


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Facundo Aguilera budin...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Shervin Emami shervin.em...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I'm even using the Debian Stable packages for
  NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL.
 
  ...

 Are you using the nvidia driver or nouveau? I had similar problems
 with nouveau and desktop effects enabled.


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Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-14 Thread Shervin Emami
Hi,

I switched to Debian 7.0 Wheezy Stable (KDE) AMD64 as my main OS for work 
home for the past 2 months, because I love KDE but was annoyed with how
often Linux Mint KDE would suddenly crash and need me to logout  log back
in to KDE.

I chose Debian Stable as the most stable KDE option, and yet it still seems
unstable for me. Perhaps its the combination of some software I'm often
using (Skype, Oracle Java, Adobe Flash, VirtualBox) or my Ghost-Deco KDE
Window Decoration or my laptop's NVIDIA/Intel Optimus GPU. But I've used
the official Debian stable package for everything I'm using except Skype,
Oracle JDK, Flash and Truecrypt. I'm even using the Debian Stable packages
for NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL. I also had initial problems
with audio until I removed every possible piece of PulseAudio I could find
while still allowing Skype, so I'm not sure exactly what is causing my
instability but it feels like multiple bugs, not just one.

I experience crashes around once per day, either as a software like
Iceweasel or Kate or Dolphin crashing or as KDE/Plasma crashing  requiring
me to hit Alt+PrtSc+K to close X  log back in to KDE. I've also found
repeatable bugs that crash apps such as Kate and Inkscape but when I start
to file bug reports I realize I shouldn't because Debian Stable is using
old versions of the software and these bugs were fixed in later versions,
so I assume nothing else can be done.

So I get the impression I would have more stability if I used Debian
Testing in the hope that newer software  drivers have fixed the bugs I'm
often experiencing, but I've only used Debian for 2 months so I'm not sure
if I should be back-porting newer versions to my system or what.

Any recommendations on how to get more stability? Because I really want to
stick with Debian KDE for long-term.


Cheers,
Shervin Emami.


Re: Recommended way to use Debian?

2013-07-14 Thread Rubin Abdi
First off I would say simply try apt-get removing most of the odd 3rd
party peices of software you listed in your email. Particularly Skype
and Flash. See if you can go a few days without either of them.

Next step would be simply to try a more recenter kernel (though honestly
3.2.0 is fairly stable on most of the machine I've got Wheezy running on
right now). You can read up about Debian Backports or simply learn about
compiling your own. Google should provide a multitude of guides on
either subject.

I would not recommend jumping to Jessie (Debian Testing) just yet, maybe
hold off another month or two for folks to get past the fanfare of a new
stable release happening. I think you'll find much of the same as Stable
except with the few newer things being slightly broken in some special
way. Keep in mind that Stable was Testing as of a few months ago, it's
still fairly fresh or so they say.

Currently I'm running Debian Sid (no Flash, Oracle Java, Skype), which
in all honesty has provided me with less stability problems over the
past year, but more ho crap apt-get dist-upgrade just puked all over
everything! issues to deal with than you'll find in Jessie or less so
with Wheezy. Your milage and want to sysadmin your own machine may vary.

Also a note about bugs, you should always file bugs, always always
always, regardless of what version you're running, always. But only
after you do a quick search to make sure your issue hasn't already been
filed. Always file bugs, even for the old stuff. Noting it down is
better than not, it might help with fixing a similar bug in the future.

And remember kids, filing good bug reports is half the contributing to
FOSS battle!

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