Ubuntu/GNOME deteriorating?
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From: White Spirit on 26 Mar 2010 06:32 On 26/03/2010 00:48, Ignoramus30639 wrote: > I would like to state that in a chase after the latest and greatest > concepts, developers of Gnome and Ubuntu are not paying attention to > the basics, and my feeling is that we are deteriorating into a big > mess. Try KDE4. I recommend it.
From: The Natural Philosopher on 26 Mar 2010 06:35 Ignoramus30639 wrote: > On 2010-03-26, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >> Debian stable lenny is pretty good for me. >> >> I've used backports to get the latest kernel, virtual box and open office. >> >> Slightly peeved that Firefox latest is not there. Compiled that >> >> Got some screen bugs with Firfox/iceweasel/GTK not playing nice/. >> >> Runs broadcom wireless OK. >> >> cant answer for USB sticks: they self mount ..never tried them on fstab. >> >> DVB is a tad flakey - have to use totem Xine, and had trouble getting >> stable WMV plugin Think its xlc or something. >> >> But its pretty stable now. >> > > I will install Debian Lenny 5.0.4 somewhere and will report results. > > I assume that I can just upgrade it with apt-get and then get new > release with some shell command. Right? > Do you mean upgrade FROM ubuntu, or upgrade it from a fresh install of itself? > It has Network Manager? > Probably. If by that you mean a windows like GUI that allows you to manually connect to WiFi. I have to say, I junked it in favour of a 'connect at boot time' script.. > Thanks a lot. > > i
From: mechanic on 26 Mar 2010 08:48 On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:43:20 -0700, Patrick Callahan wrote: > Debian has them, but not in the main repos. They're in the non-free section, > like on Ubuntu. The package names will be the same. Except Ubuntu call it multiverse or restricted. -- mechanic
From: Ignoramus8345 on 26 Mar 2010 08:52 On 2010-03-26, White Spirit <wspirit(a)homechoice.co.uk> wrote: > On 26/03/2010 00:48, Ignoramus30639 wrote: > >> I would like to state that in a chase after the latest and greatest >> concepts, developers of Gnome and Ubuntu are not paying attention to >> the basics, and my feeling is that we are deteriorating into a big >> mess. > > Try KDE4. I recommend it. Do you run it daily? Is it stable? i
From: Ignoramus8345 on 26 Mar 2010 08:53
On 2010-03-26, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > Ignoramus30639 wrote: >> On 2010-03-26, The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >>> Debian stable lenny is pretty good for me. >>> >>> I've used backports to get the latest kernel, virtual box and open office. >>> >>> Slightly peeved that Firefox latest is not there. Compiled that >>> >>> Got some screen bugs with Firfox/iceweasel/GTK not playing nice/. >>> >>> Runs broadcom wireless OK. >>> >>> cant answer for USB sticks: they self mount ..never tried them on fstab. >>> >>> DVB is a tad flakey - have to use totem Xine, and had trouble getting >>> stable WMV plugin Think its xlc or something. >>> >>> But its pretty stable now. >>> >> >> I will install Debian Lenny 5.0.4 somewhere and will report results. >> >> I assume that I can just upgrade it with apt-get and then get new >> release with some shell command. Right? >> > > Do you mean upgrade FROM ubuntu, or upgrade it from a fresh install of > itself? I mean upgrade from a fresh install of itself. > >> It has Network Manager? >> > Probably. If by that you mean a windows like GUI that allows you to > manually connect to WiFi. To wifi, and to wireless broadband and modems. > I have to say, I junked it in favour of a 'connect at boot time' script.. connect at boot time does not work for me -- I use too many different ways of connecting. i |