On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 08:29, Will Hill wrote: > It covers everything on how to make a "perfect desktop". How to play various > streaming media, do your own LAN streaming, play css DVDs, VoIP, > gnomemeeting, browsers, email clients, office and productivity, DOS and > Windows program usage packages, window managers, and why each implementation > is worth using and easy to set up. The sum of the parts is amazing and the > author has done a good job of describing things in the simplest terms. > > The one thing I did not like is that the author recommends apt-get over > synaptic. I do that and use dselect with an earlier version of Mepis. While > it brings bleeding edge software to you, it does so at a cost of hundreds of > megs of downloading and perhaps hours of installing that eliminates the > advantage of a 10 to 15 minute single CD install. Worse, applications can > sometimes dissapear if they are being worked on. This would freak a newbie > out unless Simply Mepis has vastly improved apt-get. The result is > basically experimental Debian, which is fun and works but hard to maintain. > Ed Richards has been using Synaptic and demonstrated it to me at the last > SIG. It somehow manages to pull only packages that are needed without doing > a complete update and the system remains Mepis. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
Will, Thats an excellent review of the article and I would love to read it, so WHERE THE HAIL IS IT?......:) Ed
