What is good with debian is that it's STABLE.
Not arguing at all, but would like to say that, for me, the cool thing about Debian are all the little packages scripting weird stuff I'd never think of. For example, want to try out Debian with The Hurd, NetBSD, or FreeBSD kernels on another partition? Just apt-get install crosshurd. Run crosshurd and your system is bootstrapped for you and ready to boot into.
I'm sure, given your UID that you understand and have heard the reason for a text installer many times before: it needs to work across all platforms Debian supports.
That said, I have used the new installer several times recently, and it works fine, but:
I always have at least one unrecoverable error during manual partitioning which has to be recovered from after installation; and
The download of update packages invariably breaks in the middle, dumping me out to a shell or aptitude to finish it all off, again manually.
I hope these issues get worked out of the installer before it gets released.
Wow this project has matured fast. I stumbled on it ??a year and a half ago?? when it was still in its infancy. Every once in a while I visit it, expecting it to be dead like so many other projects that I try to follow, but I am always suprised by new material on the front pages.
Congrats to the Gambas developers for being such work horses! I am impressed.
So, you had a Model III? I was stuck with a Model I and 4K. Hahaha. As for no practical uses... I created an ncurses-like interface to a ADnD character creater that spanned two floppies on the Model IIIs at school. They did more than anything at the time, and the Model IIs (which were reasonably similar) were used in busineses all over the place.
After I installed your distro recently, I was impressed by the attention to graphical detail. The gdm login screen, the default theme and the wallpapers chosen for the desktop were all very nice.
One thing that stood out was the choice to eliminate desktop icons and change the required trash icon into a panel applet. Why was this choice made?
I "upgraded" my Debian Unstable to Ubuntu by adding the repository, so I could get Gnome 2.8 and some of the mods they'd done easily, then removed the repository just as easily to stay with Debian. Everything cool, but my Gnome splash screen says Ubuntu now.
Yeah. My TRS-80 Model I (which predated the Apple II by just a little) could do a for 1 to 500 loop in a second. I think that same loop would be faster on modern hardware...
Um, no.
I don't know why I would surround credit union with quotes, do you? The question mark style merely means that I'm not sure if it was a credit union or not, because I don't really understand the relationship between the Thai government and Tanakharn Omsap Thai, the bank in question.
I'm shaking my head in confusion about this one...
Posted from Firefox on a Debian unstable box running Gnome 2.8.
When the price of hardware goes down, the market generally demands that software costs go down as well.
This is exactly what I was thinking. When I lived in Thailand, the government promoted a low-cost computer with Linux pre-installed. They offered easy financing with 0% interest through the governments ?credit union?, I think.
This did not in any way affect the piracy problem. In fact, it created such downward pressure on MS's prices that the first crack appeared in the "one price around the world" policy. The piracy rate didn't change (it couldn't really go up...), and in the end, nothing changed.
What if I got debian on my router?
If you are using Debian on your router, the just apt-get install diskless, apt-get install lessdisks, or apt-get install pxesconfig, and you should be OK.
I appreciate the long explanation, but I understood that part and was looking for a wm (not WM, haha) that was based on GnuStep, but there doesn't appear to be anything like that, though several attempts have been made and a distro (Linux-Step?) aborted.
Although this is going to sound a lto like flamebait, it is a real question... Is GnuStep a viable platform? Ten years without a wm based on it? It sounds like a perfect match for the Hurd, a technically superior solution that never goes anywhere and never dies. (OK, maybe the last sentence WAS flamebait)
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What is good with debian is that it's STABLE.
Not arguing at all, but would like to say that, for me, the cool thing about Debian are all the little packages scripting weird stuff I'd never think of. For example, want to try out Debian with The Hurd, NetBSD, or FreeBSD kernels on another partition? Just apt-get install crosshurd. Run crosshurd and your system is bootstrapped for you and ready to boot into.
That said, I have used the new installer several times recently, and it works fine, but:
- I always have at least one unrecoverable error during manual partitioning which has to be recovered from after installation; and
- The download of update packages invariably breaks in the middle, dumping me out to a shell or aptitude to finish it all off, again manually.
I hope these issues get worked out of the installer before it gets released.So, the ability to script KDE from bash was a bad idea, too?
Wow this project has matured fast. I stumbled on it ??a year and a half ago?? when it was still in its infancy. Every once in a while I visit it, expecting it to be dead like so many other projects that I try to follow, but I am always suprised by new material on the front pages.
Congrats to the Gambas developers for being such work horses! I am impressed.
Then Nautilus is unnecessary for you, in addition to the trash ;)
So, you had a Model III? I was stuck with a Model I and 4K. Hahaha. As for no practical uses... I created an ncurses-like interface to a ADnD character creater that spanned two floppies on the Model IIIs at school. They did more than anything at the time, and the Model IIs (which were reasonably similar) were used in busineses all over the place.
Do you change the default behavior of Nautilus to permanently delete, "rm -Rf .Trash/*" manually, or just waste disk space?
In Gnome for me, it's in the Computer menu, under System Configuration --> Screen Resolution. I'm running unstable, not Woody, however.
The ubuntu home page has a "bounty" section, mostly for Python work, but I don't think that's what you want.
After I installed your distro recently, I was impressed by the attention to graphical detail. The gdm login screen, the default theme and the wallpapers chosen for the desktop were all very nice.
One thing that stood out was the choice to eliminate desktop icons and change the required trash icon into a panel applet. Why was this choice made?
With so many distros being offshoots of Red Hat (including my favorite localized one, LinuxTLE), why did you choose Debian over Fedora for your base?
What were the major hurdles you encountered while developing this Debian offshoot and what sets it apart from the original?
I "upgraded" my Debian Unstable to Ubuntu by adding the repository, so I could get Gnome 2.8 and some of the mods they'd done easily, then removed the repository just as easily to stay with Debian. Everything cool, but my Gnome splash screen says Ubuntu now.
If you're talking about the original one, I think the first cut was given an X for violence, just as Scarface was.
Yeah. My TRS-80 Model I (which predated the Apple II by just a little) could do a for 1 to 500 loop in a second. I think that same loop would be faster on modern hardware...
No Ogg? No Way!
Um, no.
I don't know why I would surround credit union with quotes, do you? The question mark style merely means that I'm not sure if it was a credit union or not, because I don't really understand the relationship between the Thai government and Tanakharn Omsap Thai, the bank in question.
I'm shaking my head in confusion about this one...
Posted from Firefox on a Debian unstable box running Gnome 2.8.
When the price of hardware goes down, the market generally demands that software costs go down as well.
This is exactly what I was thinking. When I lived in Thailand, the government promoted a low-cost computer with Linux pre-installed. They offered easy financing with 0% interest through the governments ?credit union?, I think.
This did not in any way affect the piracy problem. In fact, it created such downward pressure on MS's prices that the first crack appeared in the "one price around the world" policy. The piracy rate didn't change (it couldn't really go up...), and in the end, nothing changed.
Low hardware prices will not solve MS's problems.
Well, my friends at Pantip Plaza in Bangkok got them from somewhere, so I assume that they were available.
My god! My teen students in Korea get messages constantly during class, and watching them on the bus, it appears to be their favorite activity...
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Side-note: A real Linux PDA, the Zaurus, was just dropped in the US due to low sales. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/sharp_dro
What if I got debian on my router?
If you are using Debian on your router, the just apt-get install diskless, apt-get install lessdisks, or apt-get install pxesconfig, and you should be OK.
I appreciate the long explanation, but I understood that part and was looking for a wm (not WM, haha) that was based on GnuStep, but there doesn't appear to be anything like that, though several attempts have been made and a distro (Linux-Step?) aborted.
Although this is going to sound a lto like flamebait, it is a real question... Is GnuStep a viable platform? Ten years without a wm based on it? It sounds like a perfect match for the Hurd, a technically superior solution that never goes anywhere and never dies. (OK, maybe the last sentence WAS flamebait)
Thanks
Sounds like a C&D letter quoting the DMCA is in order... ;)