Re: Debian Desktop... but which Debian on my Desktop... now?!
Am Donnerstag, 30. September 2004 14:30 schrieb Christoffer Sawicki:
> The Debian Desktop Distribution (DDD) archive is running but waiting for
> some mirrors... Then we need some d-i customization and package selection.
> :)
This sounds as if there wouldn't be all that much more work needde to be done
- gives me hope to see something soon.
Is the inavailability of mirrors a real issue? How about the 'usual places'
like ibiblio.org and gwdg.de and so on?
> Welcome to the club. There are a lot of users in the same seat as you.
> BTW, a KDE Volume Manager is being developed in KDE CVS.
> You can make stuff automount without patching your kernel. Candidates are
> autofs and the parts that form Project Utopia (udev, dbus, hal). OTOH,
> automounting on disc insertion is not really needed if the DE can mount the
> disc on access IMHO.
>
I've read about Project Utopia and the KDE Volume Manager before but always
had the impression that those were a bit far off to be really integrated and
nice and all. Though the availability of the GNOME Volume Manager might prove
me wrong there =).
Still it seems to be quite a bit harder to get all this (HAL, D-BUS, KDE
VM...) going instead of 'just' adding a supermount-ng patch to the kernel...
don't know just wish KDE or my distribution-of-choice (DDD? :)) would handle
this out of the box.
> Now for some shameless self-promotion... The Kalyxo project will provide
> periodic stable releases of DDD together with a desktop-friendly KDE
> system. Read more on http://www.kalyxo.org/.
Everything I've seen from Kalyxo this far simply rocks... Guess I don't need
tp go into too much detail but even the fact that you're packaging FreeNX,
make me use the latest amaroK and so one... oh well a whole KDE debian system
done by kalyxo could be THE thing for me.
But then again I've a pretty clear view of what the perfect KDE desktop should
look like out of the box and I shouldn't expect anyone to fullfill this ;)
> I'm not too fond of SuSE either, but what makes it so bad?
>
Ok, it's not that bad - i even have a working SuSE 9.1 on my Notebook because
I don't need to do too much myself ... many things just work.
But it has been quite a bit work to get things like apt4rpm and bash
completion (like apt-get instell kde<TAB TAB> -> list of all packages
starting with kde) work reliably and compared to any Debian system I've used
(on the same machine) SuSE is just plain slow.
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