I've noticed a big drop in the quality of the repositories since the last release, packages being removed for seemingly no reason. pypanel is gone, tint2 is gone, trayer is gone, and in order to get these, it's source or other workaround (such as temporarily changing repos which i ahte since tis very sloppy) but overalll i love the distro despite these little niggles. <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Iain Barnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iainspeed@gmail.com">iainspeed@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>There's a lot of good things about Debian, but...</div><div></div><div>mysql built from source doesn't work on Lenny, the binary doesn't work on Lenny, and the dpkg (which does work) installs exim and some MTA I don't want and don't need as depedencies. Wtf? The only reason I noticed exim was there was because I was playing around with 'top' and 'ps' the other day. Since the primary source of security holes on Windows was always the extra unneeded and unasked for services it set up, why is one of the most famous Linux distros doing the same with the most used OS database? *<br>
</div><div></div><div>That was the last thing. I get some stupid niggle like that every day. Yes, it's very easy to apt-get remove exim... etc etc, but I find that sort of stuff mega sloppy. </div><div class="gmail_quote">
</div><div class="gmail_quote">It's also because I've had to use it as a desktop, not just a server like usual, since the hard disk on my mac died (which has it's own ridiculous story), and it's just not in the same class as OSX for desktop stuff. Nothing is, IMO, but I even started hankering for Windows the other day.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"></div><div class="gmail_quote">Iain</div><div class="gmail_quote">*maybe SqlLite is top, but who's counting?</div><div class="gmail_quote"></div><div class="gmail_quote"></div><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/8/5 Nicholas Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tel0seh@googlemail.com" target="_blank">tel0seh@googlemail.com</a>></span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
what particular aspects of debian are hacking you off? I've just migrated to debian myself, and I'm loving it. :D<div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Iain Barnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iainspeed@gmail.com" target="_blank">iainspeed@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>I think the questions will come when I try setting it up, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't one to avoid.<br>
</div><div>I might give it a go this afternoon and see what's what.</div><div><div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/5 Huntly Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:huntly.cameron@gmail.com" target="_blank">huntly.cameron@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry, forgot to add that I did try out some haskell tutorials and<br>
eventually installed Xmonad on it and it worked with no problems but<br>
am still not up to messing about with the config files... yet. :-)<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
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e: <a href="mailto:huntly.cameron@gmail.com" target="_blank">huntly.cameron@gmail.com</a><br>
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2009/8/5 Huntly Cameron <<a href="mailto:huntly.cameron@gmail.com" target="_blank">huntly.cameron@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div>> 2009/8/5 Gordon <<a href="mailto:gicoupar@googlemail.com" target="_blank">gicoupar@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
>> It;s great if you're willing to put in the time to set it up which I'm<br>
>> assuming you probably will be.<br>
><br>
> I would agree with Gordon. It does take a fair bit of config work to<br>
> get it all set up. But its a great wee system. I've got it running on<br>
> my laptop with the wmii WM. The documentation on the arch wiki is<br>
> also excellent and the forums are good too so if you do run into<br>
> problems then they're easily fixed most of the time.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
><br>
> Huntly Cameron<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Nistur <<a href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com" target="_blank">nistur@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Representin' for Arch Massiv!<br>
>>> Anyway, I use arch and love it. Any particular questions about it?<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Aug 5, 2009 1:32 PM, "Iain Barnett" <<a href="mailto:iainspeed@gmail.com" target="_blank">iainspeed@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Was just wondering if anyone had tried out this disto? I'm getting a<br>
>>> bit hacked off with certain aspects of Debian, and Arch seems to<br>
>>> support Haskell quite strongly, so I'll probably give it a whirl soon.<br>
>>> If it's crap though, do say, and give my bank account a chance to<br>
>>> level up with my swear box.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Iain<br>
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