Am Donnerstag, 30. September 2004 14:30 schrieb Christoffer Sawicki: > The Debian Desktop Distribution (DDD) archive is running but waiting for > some mirrors... Then we need some d-i customization and package selection. > :)
This sounds as if there wouldn't be all that much more work needde to be done - gives me hope to see something soon. Is the inavailability of mirrors a real issue? How about the 'usual places' like ibiblio.org and gwdg.de and so on? > Welcome to the club. There are a lot of users in the same seat as you. > BTW, a KDE Volume Manager is being developed in KDE CVS. > You can make stuff automount without patching your kernel. Candidates are > autofs and the parts that form Project Utopia (udev, dbus, hal). OTOH, > automounting on disc insertion is not really needed if the DE can mount the > disc on access IMHO. > I've read about Project Utopia and the KDE Volume Manager before but always had the impression that those were a bit far off to be really integrated and nice and all. Though the availability of the GNOME Volume Manager might prove me wrong there =). Still it seems to be quite a bit harder to get all this (HAL, D-BUS, KDE VM...) going instead of 'just' adding a supermount-ng patch to the kernel... don't know just wish KDE or my distribution-of-choice (DDD? :)) would handle this out of the box. > Now for some shameless self-promotion... The Kalyxo project will provide > periodic stable releases of DDD together with a desktop-friendly KDE > system. Read more on http://www.kalyxo.org/. Everything I've seen from Kalyxo this far simply rocks... Guess I don't need tp go into too much detail but even the fact that you're packaging FreeNX, make me use the latest amaroK and so one... oh well a whole KDE debian system done by kalyxo could be THE thing for me. But then again I've a pretty clear view of what the perfect KDE desktop should look like out of the box and I shouldn't expect anyone to fullfill this ;) > I'm not too fond of SuSE either, but what makes it so bad? > Ok, it's not that bad - i even have a working SuSE 9.1 on my Notebook because I don't need to do too much myself ... many things just work. But it has been quite a bit work to get things like apt4rpm and bash completion (like apt-get instell kde<TAB TAB> -> list of all packages starting with kde) work reliably and compared to any Debian system I've used (on the same machine) SuSE is just plain slow.
