On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:41:38PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > On 01/16/07 07:42:29PM -0600, Karl Schmidt wrote: > > Add your show stopper to this thread... > > > > First on the list is the java browser pluging - the black down java > > sort-of-works(tm) (not a Debian package) > > Since Sun's GPL'ing Java that'll probably be taken care of in the future, > but the chances of it making it into Etch are slim. But frankly I don't see > the problem. Majour problem with so much java being used in web sites, I find it really annoying - the solutions I use is the blackdown - there is a apt repository and the gcj plugin - still early days > > > Next is flash - you can sort of workaround it by using switftfox (comes > > with bugs)(not a Debian package) > > Same here, I like the fact that my browser doesn't have flash. I do keep a > 32-bit chroot around 'just in case' I need it, but that's pretty rare. > > > But the biggest problem for me is that there isn't a AMD64 nvu package. The > > author abandoned it to work on a replacement package, but in the mean time > > there isn't a good WYSIWYG html editor for web development. (Sorry, but > > quanta just isn't in the same league and OO makes bloat-code out of clean > > html). > > nvu doesn't exist at all in Debian as far as I can tell, so that's not > AMD64-specific. But there does seem to be nvu packages in Ubuntu and they > even have AMD64 builds, so you could try building it yourself or rebuilding > the Ubuntu source packages if you really want it. > > > IMHO etch as a amd64 server is fine - but the Desktop has holes > > The Linux desktop in general has holes, but IMO Etch itself is fine. I've > been using the AMD64 port on this machine since I built it a few months > ago and haven't had a single problem. > > Jim. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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