Debian's Testing Branch Nears Completion

DeviceGuru writes "With Debian Lenny (aka 'testing') poised to displace Etch as the popular Linux distribution's 'stable' branch possibly as soon as next month, blogger Rick Lehrbaum loaded the latest preview (beta 2) of Lenny's KDE CD image onto an available Thinkpad, and took it for a spin. How's it coming along? After detailing a handful of issues — and offering solutions for each (except Bluetooth support) — he concludes: 'Other than the need for a few hacks and fixes, my main complaint with it is its inclusion of way too many of KDE's rich set of applications, such as games, tools, etc.' From the looks of it, looks like Lenny might be the new 'Debian stable' soon!"

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Add âoecontrib non-freeâ at the end of each repository line. Also, add the following two repo lines to the file: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main deb, http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

So yeah, the guy has taken a lot of private parts from people who don't have his best interest at heart. This is something Debian Developers don't think you should do, even if you call your laptop the Black Tower.

For all of that, I did not see him add decss, which is actually free software, and his desktop looks like shit when he's finished. He's probably so afraid of a DMCA action that he skips mentioning decss. It is sad that laws can keep US citizens from free software and shove some into the hands of people who say, "suck my dick." The ugliness of his desktop is a matter of personal taste. Free desktops look better than an ugly Win 2000 knock off. I can't stand icons on my desktop.

Re:Actually, no.

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What's fellatio?

It's a type of spork.