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Debian 3.0r2 Released
FrankoBoy writes "As announced on DistroWatch, Debian 3.0r2 has been released this weekend, with some security issues fixed... and Rock 'n Diamonds dropped because of license problems. Here's the official announcement. This release had been slowed by an attack on Debian boxes discussed Friday."
Disclaimer : Don't get me wrong, I love deiban, I use it on my Apple macs all the time, a user since Potato in 2000.
That we can get some uptodate software in Debian. Even Unstable is out of date. For example, Gnome 2.2, SodiPodi 0.31, OpenOffice 1.0 are still in Debian unstable even though their new versions have been out for MONTHS. Hopefully Debian will get some new maintainers soon.
Is a hoard of Debian Zealots trying to convince you to switch. I'm here to pre-empt them.
/lib/modules, as you are going to need it.
First of all, Debian has the most out of date software packages of any major mainstream distros. Even in the unstable version, is KDE 2.2 and Gnome 2.0, with Xfree86 4.1 (A version that really sucks).
Secondly, its a pain in the goatse to set up, first of all, you are forced to use Kernel 2.2, which is horribly hacked with "backports" to get any use on any modern machine (Read, made after 1999). Good luck memorizing all the *.ko files in
Configuring XFree86 is hell! If you don't have a Thick X11 orilley book, and a list of your horizontal sync values from your monitor's intruction manual (if you even have one), BOOM! There goes your monitor.
Even then, good luck getting anything over 640x480@16 colours.
The most common response to help questions on the Debian mailing list is "n00b, READ THE FUCKING MANUAL, you idiot, go back to WINDOWS XP if you can't learn to use dselect", true too, search the archives if you think I'm lying. Other distros give you comprehensive PRINTED MANUALS, PHONE SUPPPORT and/or freindly forums where repling RTFM gets you banned!
Debian has ZERO support for any decent hardware, including USB mice, scanners, Sound cards, heck even Serial devices struggle. If you can even get 80x25 text mode with PS/2 input devices you are really lucky. With Mandrake 9.2, i can just plug in my Digital camera, and a Icon appears on my desktop, it just works. With Debian, i would have to recompile my kernel, mount the device using a obscure usb module, and even then, there is no guareentee that an icon will appear on my desktop, I will have to mount it from the command line.
Apt-get has many flaws. First of all it uses a non standard package format (the rest of the world uses RPM, deprecate the DEB format!), has broken respetories, and out of date software to install.
And if you think I'm joking about this, find out why THOUSANDS of Debian users are switching to REAL distributions Debian is falling to pieces, if it is to survive any market share it will be through its superior forks (Xandros, Lindows, K/G-noppix) and unoffical package respetories.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, and I'm happily using distros such as Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo and Fedora. But I'm sick to death of zealots that push obsolete Distros on me EVERY FREAKING TIME A DISTRO is reviewed. I'm speaking from real world experiance here, My Old packard bell monitor caught fire because of Debian!.
P.S (This is not a troll, its insightful flamebait!)
Are you UNCIRCUMCISED?
Then you should FEEL dirty and ASHAMED! How can you have that aardvark hanging between your filthy puke inducing crotch when there is a treatment for the UGLY DICK condition? That's right, as a Linux chick I can't count the many times I've encountered this DIGUSTING problem.
Linux Guys are VERY GROSSLY uncircumcised do to the fact that the leaders of this movement are not. Linus "long foreskin" Torvalds and Alan "uncut" Cox are PRIME examples of ugly SMELLY SMEGMA dick. I suggest that we take up a collection and CIRCUMCISE these guys.
Until this is done, I'll only use GPL software from properly circumcised and beautiful cocked men like RMS. So NO Linux kernel for this HOT GPL chick..only the HURD until these filthy uncircumcised Linux guys get the operation and become clean.
I wonder if they have updated XFree86 since 3.0r1?
Choice: Debian 3.0r1 stable with XFree86 4.1.0 or RedHat 9 stable with 4.3.0 - ooh it's so hard to choose... NOT!!!
# vi /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;
Apt::Get::Purge;
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Hope this helps. If you don't quite want the cutting-edge-ness of unstable, use "testing" as the default release. Goddammit, I have to type for a bit more to overcome this stupid lameness filter. What gives, Taco? Still not enough text to overcome the filter, this really sucks. I'll start posting words from /etc/words in a minute ('cos that youldn't be lame or anything). aardvark aaron ablabab abracadabra anonymous anteater. I can see a use for lameness filters for ACs but for registered users with halfway-decent karma they blow goats. TACO THESE ARE NOT JUNK CHARACTERS, THEY ARE IMPORTANT YOU GOATFUCKING MORON.
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
After all that I forgot to post as plain ol' text... :-/
If someone ever gets round to re-writing slashcode to make it validate please could they replace the piece of crap posting system at the same time?
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
Not to sound like a troll, but I think Debian is finished for the non-hacker/hobbyist and here is why.
* Debian has gone from being overcautious to out of date. 3.x is still on the 2.2 kernel by default. Other distros are on 2.4 and looking to 2.6 already. The packages have the same problem.
* I hate to mention it, but I have too. The installer sucks. No business is going to roll out a distro as complex and time consuming as Debian's install.
* Appearance. Suse / Red Hat look more like professional distros from start to finish.