2008/8/31 Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 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 The 4 DVD's I downloaded contained outdated softwares.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 even the synaptics package manager is out of date and does not even 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). > > "best off sticking with Ubuntu, which is less stable, but more up-to-date." or debian testing?
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