On Aug 30, 2008, at 10:54 PM, sid wrote:
> > I am using dell latitude d531 laptop(amd64) with debian 4.0 etch on > it. The 4 DVD's I downloaded contained outdated softwares. Even the > linux kernel shipped by debian was not able to support most of my > hardware so I had to recompile it to the new kernel(2.6.25.9). > The touchpad had problems too, so I had to follow some instructions > about installing synaptics driver. etc... > > Now the problem is that I still cannot install many softwares. And > even the synaptics package manager is out of date and does not even > connect through a proxy. > > Also the official repositories are not available. And searching on the > internet made me get the view that installing from unofficial > repositories would make my debian system break down as some file would > surely be overwritten by a new one and break the software chain. > Please tell me whether it is true or not. and If not i'll really > appreciate if someone can direct me to such stable repositories. > > I am fond of debian a lot, but the problems I am facing is making me > want to ship to another distribution and I cannot stop thinking why > people want to use debian if there are so many problems one has to > overcome before making it usable. Debian itself is targeted more towards servers. It's much older software, but it's rock-solid stable. If you get it on the right hardware, it's nigh impossible to crash. For web and email servers, that's an indispensable feature. If you're a desktop user, you're probably best off sticking with Ubuntu, which is less stable, but more up-to-date. Sorry you wasted those CDs, but hopefully you learned something from it (I usually do, which helps me rationalize the CDs to myself). Registered Linux Addict #431495 http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman | John 3:16! http://www.fsdev.net/ | http://lordsauron.wordpress.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
