On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:49:18AM +1200, cr wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > I tried Mepis for a while. It was fine for the 1st six months or so, > > > but once the testing and unstable got out of sync, I had more and more > > > problems adding packages when I had to. > > > > I just got it because it had an easy install and installed decent video > > drivers. For older machines Debian's fine but for my game machine I just > > don't want the hassle of configuring every little thing by hand. It's the > > one machine I want to just run as I use it to relax. :) > > > > > (Or has Mepis gone to the Ubuntu repository now, like > > > Libranet and some other distros did?) > > > > Not sure. Ubuntu's repositories are one of the reasons I don't like > > it. If Mepis went that way I'd be a sad panda. > > HEY!!!! > > Since this thread has drifted back to Linux distros and hence is almost On > Topic for this list, how about labelling it clearly "ON TOPIC" so we can tell > it apart from all the other hundreds of recent posts?? > > ;-) > > cr >
I have debian on most of my machines here. I'm currently running Ubuntu on my fastest machine because X keeps crashing in Debian (yes, I've reported the bug). Except for that one detail, Debian works just fine. ON Ubuntu, though, I just get boxes instead of characters in xemacs. -- hendrik > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
