[Glastonbury] Linux's latest...

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:58:03AM +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 03:04, Nick Irwin wrote:
> > Well, just thought I'd provoke some conversation about the latest Linux 
> > developments.
> > 
> > I installed Mandrake 10.0 today and took a plunge in the deep end with the 2.6 
> > Kernel! I'm also onto KDE 3.2 and ALSA sound among other things.
2.6 is nice and responsive.  KDE 3.2 is very nice - had it for a little
while.

> 
> I tried to install Debian 3 yesterday, since I've been thinking of
> switching to Debian for a while.
> 
FAQ warning :)

Do a _minimal_ text based install of Debian 3.0 (woody).

Change the /etc/apt/sources.list lines to point to testing.

Do an apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade.

Bear in mind that the current testing release has had a deal of testing.
It will shortly be the stable release of Debian.

> I think I've changed my mind! I had nothing but trouble, and still can't
> get X running (with an nvidia geforce 5200 - not exactly a rare card!)

Always install the minimum, then upgrade.  

apt-get install x-window-system kde

should be all you need.
 
> I wish they'd focus on quality rather than quantity a bit more. (They
> try to support too many packages on too many architectures, and fail.)
> 
Depends on your viewpoint.  It works fine on Alpha, Sparc and two
disparate flavours of i386 here :)
>

Mail me off list and I can give you detailed instructions if required.

Andy