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Debian's Testing Branch Nears Completion

Posted by timothy on from the apt-remains-a-fantastic-argument dept.

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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  1. I already use a modern stable Debian... by mortonda · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's called Ubuntu.

  2. Still not ready by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hacking to get Wifi working, hacking to get PPP working, hacking config files to get sound working properly and no bluetooth.

    And Freetards will have everyone believe GNU/Linux is ready for most people's desktops. Sorry, but it's still failing in this market.

    Queue the lame, "It's the manufacturer's fault!" and the "It's the proprietary software dev's fault!" posts. Sorry, but this is utter crap, if these people were given a solid software base to develop on there wouldn't be a problem. Multiple distro targets, with the associated differences in subsystems, make it nearly impossible for third-party developers to develop for "Linux", whilst an unstable ABI means no device drivers for GNU/Linux lusers.

    Yeah, yeah. -1 Truth. Mod me down, but some of you Freetards will read this, and you know deep-down that it's true. We really need to stop shoving GNU/Linux down people's throats, until it's ready for the desktop.

  3. Re:Dependencies are annoying. by poopdeville · · Score: -1, Troll

    $ sudo su
    # rm -rf /usr/local/lib/KDE /etc

    to get rid of the KEtcetera (games, mouse gazers, and other pointless) stuff.

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    After all, I am strangely colored.
  4. Re:Dependencies are annoying. by poopdeville · · Score: -1, Troll

    RTFM LUSAR NUUB

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    After all, I am strangely colored.
  5. Don't forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock smoking teabaggers!

    1. Re:Don't forget... by hdparm · · Score: -1, Troll

      Oh come on mods, don't blow the unique opportunity to make this rather annoying troll +5,Funny.