At risk of spawning a distro-bashing....
> > Wow, I think this was the post I needed to get off Ubuntu and try > > something else. I was having so many problems with Ubuntu 9.10 on my > > laptop, even after doing a fresh install, I then tried openSuSE and > > managing family. Yast and Yum just didn't do it for me. I went back to > the > basic, vanilla debian 5. > > Have you (or any other UUGer) got informed opinions of Debian Lenny (5?) > > Personally, I like the stability. I'm not ready for KDE4 until the KDEPIM > (kpilot, kitchensync/opensync in particular) is debugged further. > > Most packages that I want (noteedit, xsane, firefox, lilypond, and gimp) > are > full featured enough that I don't miss the bleeding-edge stuff in > (K/X/U)buntu. I'd like to have OpenOffice3, and maybe Amarok2, but not > enough to leave Debian stable-branch. The proprietary packages (dvd-css > and > nvidia drivers) were easy enough to install. > > I really loved SourceMage a few years ago (2005, maybe) but their > installers > have gotten more cryptic and difficult. > > I use Debian pretty exclusively. It is more difficult to run than the "It just Works Distros" (TM), but I much prefer the flexibility that Debian offers, even if it means that I have to set-up the graphics card on my own. Most of the time my Debian boxes don't even have a GUI (out of the 50 or so Debian boxes I run only 2 have GUI). Lenny is a good version of Debian, but a lot of packages seemed to be removed since Etch, and a lot have been reintroduced in Squeeze. It seems that there has been a lot more packages introduced in Squeeze lately (or at least it seems like the apps that I want are being put in). Squeeze is going through a lot of changes lately with the dependency start-up, major changes to udev, new version of GRUB, KDE4, conversion to dash from bash, and more. I've had to submit a lot of bugs and patches against Squeeze, but there are good things in the pipe. Unless you like to fix things often, stick with Lenny until Squeeze is frozen. I find Lenny and Squeeze to be much more out of the box than previous versions which is a good balance between flexibility and compiling your own kernel. Robert LeBlanc
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