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 d
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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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
> 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 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 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 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 (a.k
Brent Clark 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 here. Even Ubuntu, Ive
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:29 -0700, bosco wrote:
> On 2010-01-07 14:40:02 -0700, Paul Cartwright 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
On 2010-01-07 14:40:02 -0700, Paul Cartwright 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 installed sidux on my la
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
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, 2010-01-07 at 09:33 +0100, didier gaumet wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:28:08 +,
> Vasco Costa 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
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:28:08 +,
Vasco Costa 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
> using the testing rep
>On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Matthew Moore
>wrote:
>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 ser
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
>
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 r
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
stic
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 way,
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