On Fri, 10 May 2002 18:20:05 -0700 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002 04:33:29 -0600 > Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Libranet recommendations abound. The last time I checked (many > > moons ago), libranet still propounded the "old-time religion," > > i.e. hopelessly behind the times and offering an older version of > > Xfree that wouldn't run my video card at the time. I wasn't > > willing to go through the work of installing only to need to do a > > lot of work with the unstable branch (most of which is unstable > > only from the debian viewpoint). > > The update is pretty simple, involving editing sources.list and > running apt-get dist-upgrade (or something like that)
True enough, but you need a base system for that. I downloaded whatever debian was offering on the web at the time, tried to install, the installer barfed on my system, and I sent it to /dev/null and never looked back. This was during the same time frame when even the youthful gentoo worked flawlessly for me. I don't even remember what the problem was, but I wasn't about to tinker with putting up ancient versions of all my favorite packages. debian thinks the older the better, and even if a package works flawlessly, they don't consider it soup until it's been run for a long time on e-v-e-r-y version of linux they support (not just i386). Since I don't give a rat's petootie about PPC, SPARC, etc., I'm underwhelmed by debian. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.19+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
