On Jul 1, 2013 1:09 PM, "Jesse Francis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since you are used to Linux, Manjaro will be a better option for you- > its easy to use, easy to install rolling Arch based distro.
Huge up vote to arch Linux. I have been using it for a few years and I might stick with this for a long time. DE/WM change a lot, settled with i3 after xfce and xmonad. Biggest > advantage over Deb based distros is that it got pacman package Pacman is miles ahead compared to any other package manager. > manager, with a gui, and packages will be up to date, unlike LMDE > where you have to wait for another 6 months for major updates. And all > major DEs are available-from Gnome to Openbox, including Cinnamon and > Mate. They gave a new face to not that known lightweight desktop > environments like Openbox, which is worth a try! > I used to be a debian fan, but pacman first and then Manjaro stole my > love for apt! I've been using Manjaro for past two months without any > hassles. > > On 7/1/13, Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > I have been using debian-based distros for a long time now. Right now I > > have debian wheezy with applications from debian testing installed. I have > > used this combination very successfully before, but now find problems that > > I am unable to cure. The home directory does not get mounted automatically > > when booting and has to be manually mounted each time. The fstab line > > reads: "/dev/sdb5 /home rw,user,auto 1 2". > > > > Now I find that it is not detecting my usb printer that I need now. It > > looks like I better install another distro. I had been using Mint debian > > for a long time. But the iso images I downloaded of the latest Mint doesn't > > seem to work properly. Could you give suggestions for a good distro, > > preferably based on debian? > > > > Regards, > > Sasi > > > > -- > > V. Sasi Kumar > > Free Software Foundation of India > > Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/ > > > > -- > > -- > > "Freedom is the only law". > > "Freedom Unplugged" > > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > > To control your subscription visit > > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > For details visit the google group page: > > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Free Software Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > > -- > Jesse P Francis (atjesse) > > -- > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > > For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Free Software Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Free Software Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
