Curt Howland said:
HOWEVER, I run Unstable, by choice. Sid breaks all his toys, so I
expect to have problems like this once in a while.
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote:
Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian?
1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no)
No. (For Ubuntu, you'll be able to switch from Unity to GNOME Shell.
There's also a proposal floating around for a
On 17 Jan 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
[snip]
I would like to note that it is easily possible to install *any* desktop
environment or window manager on Debian (and probably Ubuntu) and that
you don't have to use the default one. I typically don't install any
tasks when I install a new
You need to simply try it out.
I don't think Debian will choose Unity instead of Gnome... (I'm
personally very positive of this... but that is only my serious belief)
anyway, I need to consider carefully abandoning Ubuntu. I'm sure they
will keep supporting Gnome.
Nevertheless, I stared a long
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:09 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
They say they will have other desktop options, but, in my
experience, it will be tough to avoid the packaging and configuration
changes that they enforce on everybody in order to make Unity work
(maybe I'm too skeptical).
I sincerely
On the 18/01/2011 12:09, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:09 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
They say they will have other desktop options, but, in my
experience, it will be tough to avoid the packaging and configuration
changes that they enforce on everybody in order to make
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:33 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com
tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On the 18/01/2011 12:09, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 12:09 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
They say they will have other desktop options, but, in my
experience, it will be tough to avoid
Mr. Johnson, good morning.
Anyway, I just learned that in the next Ubuntu, they are adopting the
Unity Desktop. I did some checking on that and I totally hate it.
I understand completely. I've had the same reaction to KDE4.
Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian?
Yes. Although the default in Debian
Greetings.
On several laptops and desktops, I made the transition from Fedora -
Ubuntu about 3 years ago. I did that mainly because Fedora updates
kept breaking the Nvidia proprietary video drivers and the
developers openly said that they didn't really care whether or not
their distribution had
On Mon January 17 2011 10:09:27 Paul Johnson wrote:
1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no)
I don't think so.
2. How can I make a transition to Debian from Ubuntu? So I need to
change my apt repositories and then do what else? If glibc or the
kernel headers are
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:26:52 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
It is totally unsupported and may break everything but every time we've
converted a system from Ubuntu to Debian in this way it has worked fine.
Most important underlying requirement is the compatibility (e.g. glibc,
etc).
The convoluted
Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian?
Sure!
1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no)
No.
Well...as far as I can see into the future Debian won't be defaulting to
it. It might be included in some repo somewhere down the road. If I
recall correctly there was a decent
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:09:27 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
(...)
Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian?
Yes, why not? :-?
1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no)
I hope not, but I fairly doubt you don't have the chance to use the
default GNOME desktop within Ubuntu, maybe
On 2011-01-17 19:09 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:
On several laptops and desktops, I made the transition from Fedora -
Ubuntu about 3 years ago. I did that mainly because Fedora updates
kept breaking the Nvidia proprietary video drivers and the
developers openly said that they didn't really
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:09 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian?
Sure. You are more than welcome to try and use Debian.
1. Is Debian defaulting to the Unity Desktop too? (please say no)
Unity has to my knowledge not even been packaged for Debian [4]. Given that
Debian
On Monday 17 January 2011 12:33:25 T o n g wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:26:52 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
It is totally unsupported and may break everything but every time we've
converted a system from Ubuntu to Debian in this way it has worked fine.
Most important underlying requirement is
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