[Lancaster] LancsLUG Meetup This Wednesday!

[David Smith]

Ken,

Sounds like fun!

Have to admit I don't think it will be too long before I take Ubuntu off 
the laptop I had with me yesterday and just stick Debian on it - as 
mentioned yesterday, I stuck straight Ubuntu on it in the meantime for 
ease of use but, although it's working fine so far, I've got a feeling 
it will get slow pretty quick if I'm not careful... we'll see how it 
goes though!

I know what you mean about the graphical installer though... whilst it's 
a huge leap forward for Debian, it's still a lot behind the 'standard' 
of Graphical Installer offered by the other distros out there atm, such 
as SuSE and Mandriva etc. Guess it will stay that way for a while though!

Hope it works out better than Ubuntu!

Best,

Dave


> David Smith wrote:
>> Thanks for that Ken - interesting stuff!
>>
>> I'm pretty sure when I got the package I have now that it was just a
>> *.tar.gz and then a case of running the shell script to start it all
>> up. If you want me to repackage what I have here for you to try out
>> (without the demo time limitations) then no problem - it may be that
>> it's functional enough at an earlier version stage for you!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dave
>>
> Thanks for kind the offer Dave, but I'll stick with what is likely to be
> an ongoing option.
> 
> I said last night that I was going to take Ubuntu/Kubuntu off my
> Thinkpad. Well I've done it, but before installing SUSE 11, I thought
> that I'd give Debian 5.0 (Lenny) a run. It installed OK and I'm
> presently downloading/installing KDE. No problems so far.
> 
> I did find the graphic installation interface rather primitive in
> comparison to what I'm used to. The partitioner interface was
> particularly so. I use a non-standard HD partitioning so as to avoid
> possible problems on a dual booting system with Microsoft OSes, so had
> to set this up manually. All did eventually seem to go OK.
> 
> Watch this space.
> 
> Ken Hough
> 
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