I recently did a Debian istalll onto a machine which had previously been
struggling with Ubuntu.
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy)
Release: 7.5
Codename: wheezy
I have an older machine which I installed Debian onto a
You could try and use the MATE desktop, which is a fork of the old Gnome2
desktop http://mate-desktop.org
On 14 Jul 2014 16:14, TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Hi Victor
On 14/07/14 15:48, Victor Churchill wrote:
I recently did a Debian istalll onto a machine which had previously been
MATE is also an alternative that I believe is in the official repositories
now - it's a fork of Gnome 2 and is effectively identical but for names
(Due to licensing restrictions, I believe).
On 14 July 2014 16:13, TimA t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Hi Victor
On 14/07/14 15:48, Victor
Thanks everybody. I figured that something like that had hapened but did
not know how to get back to a Gnome 2-like place. I have used XFCE in the
past happily so have installed that and wil also give MAte a go, as I have
heard some good things about it.
Thanks again!
On 14 July 2014 16:58,
Yep, I took David W's advice and installed MATE on a new Debian VM, and I
haven't regretted it.
On 14 Jul 2014 18:26, David Wilkinson da...@noroutetohost.net wrote:
+1 for MATE, Run it on all my newer builds.
On 14/07/14 16:58, StarLion wrote:
MATE is also an alternative that I believe is in
OK, have installed Mate and first impressions are pretty positive. WIll run
with it for a while and compare the experience with Lubuntu on works laptop
and SQueeze on the other box.
Thanks!
On 14 July 2014 22:14, John Carlyle-Clarke j...@wormdrive.net wrote:
Yep, I took David W's advice and
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