Avi Greenbury wrote:
Ali Milis wrote:
Ubuntu is great only if you have spare time.
Or if the defaults are acceptable to you.
ROFL, for years I tried to fantasize that Ubuntu is
defaults are acceptable.
Personally, I find that Debian on laptops requires more time to set
up than Ubuntu does
I wouldnt bother, try Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is great only if you have spare time.
I am on the way back to Debian too.
Unfortunately, stable means also ancient :(
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Ali Milis wrote:
I wouldnt bother, try Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is great only if you have spare time.
Or if the defaults are acceptable to you. Unless it's something other
than configuration that you're getting at?
Personally, I find that Debian on laptops requires more time to set
up than Ubuntu
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 20:43 +0700, Ali Milis wrote:
I wouldnt bother, try Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is great only if you have spare time.
I am on the way back to Debian too.
Unfortunately, stable means also ancient :(
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On Fri,08.Jan.10, 00:02:50, Vasco Costa wrote:
Lenny supports all my hardware except my Atheros wireless card (ath9k).
Backports came to rescue with linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686.
You might want to try wicd as well. I just installed lenny/stable on a
friends network and network-manager
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 00:55 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,08.Jan.10, 00:02:50, Vasco Costa wrote:
Lenny supports all my hardware except my Atheros wireless card (ath9k).
Backports came to rescue with linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686.
You might want to try wicd as well. I just
On Sat January 9 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote:
You might want to try wicd as well. I just installed lenny/stable on a
friends network and network-manager (a.k.a. nework mangler) simply
wouldn't connect to my AP. wicd worked right away.
I second that.. I had problems with my laptop wireless,
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:28:08 +,
Vasco Costa vasco.co...@geekslot.com wrote :
[...]
By the way, in case I want to go back to a rolling release scheme, how
does Debian testing/unstable behave in this regard for an experienced
power user? I know all the nuts and bolts of Archlinux, including
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 09:33 +0100, didier gaumet wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:28:08 +,
Vasco Costa vasco.co...@geekslot.com wrote :
[...]
By the way, in case I want to go back to a rolling release scheme, how
does Debian testing/unstable behave in this regard for an experienced
You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of
unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good
group at the Sidux forum.
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On Thu January 7 2010, bosco wrote:
You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of
unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good
group at the Sidux forum.
but no email list.. I installed sidux on my laptop, getting rid of Ubuntu..
still have lenny on my
On 2010-01-07 14:40:02 -0700, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com said:
On Thu January 7 2010, bosco wrote:
You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of
unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good
group at the Sidux forum.
but no email list.. I
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:29 -0700, bosco wrote:
On 2010-01-07 14:40:02 -0700, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com said:
On Thu January 7 2010, bosco wrote:
You might take a look at Sidux, it is a distro compiled out of
unstable. I used it for a while. It is well supported and has a good
Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com writes:
I think if you run Testing, its no different if you run / use FreeBSD
ports. You just need to know, and guess if its safe to do a dist-upgrade
or upgrade only certain packages, but 99% of the time, I just
dist-upgrade, and as said .. no problems
Alright, I'm back to Debian after having used it extensively in the late
90's and early 2000's. By that time I was a regular RPM hell sufferer,
thus APT was the main feature which made me switch to Debian.
Initially I was comfortable sticking with stable releases, however the
will to stay
I'm planning to stay forever this time. :)
To be really honest I've never really quit Debian since I kept using
stable in servers. I've only switched from Debian testing/unstable to
Gentoo and then Archlinux. Now that I also value a stable desktop I'm
sticking with Lenny on my laptop.
By the
On 06/01/2010 22:28, Vasco Costa wrote:
I'm planning to stay forever this time. :)
To be really honest I've never really quit Debian since I kept using
stable in servers. I've only switched from Debian testing/unstable to
Gentoo and then Archlinux. Now that I also value a stable desktop I'm
Vasco Costa:
I'm planning to stay forever this time. :)
I never switched during the whole time I have used Linux and never
regretted when I touched another distribution. :)
By the way, in case I want to go back to a rolling release scheme, how
does Debian testing/unstable behave in this
On Wednesday January 6 2010 1:52:11 pm Brent Clark wrote:
On 06/01/2010 22:28, Vasco Costa wrote:
I'm planning to stay forever this time. :)
To be really honest I've never really quit Debian since I kept using
stable in servers. I've only switched from Debian testing/unstable to
Gentoo
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Matthew Moore
anonymous.jon...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wednesday January 6 2010 1:52:11 pm Brent Clark wrote:
On 06/01/2010 22:28, Vasco Costa wrote:
I'm planning to stay forever this time. :)
To be really honest I've never really quit Debian since I kept using
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