[Liverpool] Debian

[tony burrows]

David Watson wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 20:51 +0000, Tony Burrows wrote:
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>>I know we've got some Debian users out there.  Thought I'd join you so I 
>>installed it today from a DVD set I got a few months back. (v3.0, though I 
>>have the upgrade 3.0r2 CD).  All went well, at first!
>>
>>Everything seems to have installed and runs, except for X.  Whenever I start 
>>to run it, I get a whole series of error messages.  I've got an NVidia GForce 
>>4 card.  Tried the nv server - it failed.  I couldn't see how to try 
>>configuring just X, so went back to base-config and through it all again.  
>>Tried the svga driver.  It failed on colour depth (I'd chosen 24 bit).
>>
>>Not sure I can face going all the way from the start again.  Is there any 
>>(fairly) straightforward way to bring in a server and configure it?
>>
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>Debian 3.0 ( aka woody) is very old, you could use ubuntu which is
>basically debian, but with newer software and far better hardware
>detection.  I have plenty of ubuntu cd's, if you want one let me know.
>
>And ignore the unenlightened debian haters. ;-)
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Thanks for all the advice.  I think I'll start by just trying to sort 
out the X server.  For now, I've got work to do.

I thought that woody was the most recent stable distro.  Mainly I use 
Suse, but I thought it was time I ventured further, and had an 
installation I could play with as well as one that had to be usable all 
the time.  That's why I now have a second Suse, a Debian and possibly 
Fedora.

Tony