* Erich Minderlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061027 13:11]: > For the user applications I would like to use as much as possible > stable applications, also for a low update rate. > (gnome desktop, gdm, evolution...) > For the hardware I am forced to use up to date > kernel drivers X server etc . > I did not succeed up to now to resolve these dependencies. > So I cannot use the notebook. > Do I need dbus ? > it is broken when installing gnome desktop environment. > I definitely need udev, but it is also broken. > other dependencies may show up when continuing
> So I cannot use the notebook up to now for user work. > how to proceed. Stable¹, up2date, low update-rate. Chose 2 of them. :) * Very stable, not up2date, low update rate: Debian stable * Quite stable, more up2date, not so high update rate: Debian testing * Unstable, up2date, high update rate: Debian unstable grml is similar to the third option, with less "Unstable" inside. If you are following the grml release cycle, the upgrade path² is not such pain in the ass. Especially because I run several regression tests and report every found problem to the Debian BTS³ (hey, call me a wrapper around Debian/unstable! 8-)), but also thanks to nifty stuff like grml-policy-rc.d (I hope you are aware of it, are you?). Oh, and to keep the update rate in the third option lower: you could pin grml to Debian/testing (as proposed by T in his mail). If nothing of the above is an option for you, and if Debian stable via d-i does not work, you can install plain Debian via grml: http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/11/install-debian-etch-via-grml/ Make sure you get a recent kernel version then, use backports where necessary and useful. But of course all of the above depends on your exact needs. ¹ Not necessarily as in "stable software", but as in "stable packagemangement, stable upgrade path, stable bugs". ² http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading ³ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ²^² Daddy, help! We are running out of iso8859-numbers. Let's get some coffee instead. regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers The Grml Planet http://planet.grml.org/ Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/
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