Woody Impressions
Hello everyone,
I've posted a few times before, asking questions about XFree86. I finally
got it to work! Yeah...
I don't know where else to put this, so here it goes on the list. If there
is somewhere better, let me know! :-)
So far, I like woody. When I'm in console mode, everything is very very
fast. At least, it seems faster...one thing that I know is faster and has
nothing to do with the kernel is download speed. I have a DSL connection and
when I had potato going the speed was along the lines of 25-30 KB/sec...Now
I'm doing 65-80!
Being that it's unstable/testing, I am having problems (I'm just reporting,
not complaining :-), mainly with using apt-get. I did a minimal install
starting with potato and then upgraded to woody by changing my sources.list
references from potato to woody. Upgraded no problem. I have three packages
that stubbornly refuse to install, but I either don't know what they do
(balsa, for one), or they haven't caused a serious loss of functionality; so
I'm okay with that. Sometimes dpkg segfaults, especially if I'm installing
more than a few packages, so I end up having to re-run dpkg separately from
apt-get.
I had fun attempting to get Netscape installed. First, I wasn't quite sure
what packages to d/l from non-free -- I tried all the ones that said
netscape-4.77(something like that), but that didn't work. I tried the
communicator ones and those worked better, but then I had to d/l something
that didn't look netscape-ish in order for it all to work. I had originally
tried using apt-get install netscape (or communicator) and it didn't work,
even though I am set up to use non-free software. Anyway, I finally figured
it all out, and am happily running Netscape Communicator -- except for when
I'm root (security reasons, it said).
Another thing that broke was tasksel. I still get the screen for it, but it
can't d/l anything for woody (I guess?). I want to install gnome, but that's
a nightmare and a half trying to figure out all of the stuff that is
required, which explains tasksel. Ah well...for the moment I'm running
Enlightenment, and it is slow!! It's quite a contrast to running the shell.
I go to play Mah-jong (great way to waste away a Sunday!) and two minutes
later it pops up, ready to play. I know it's two minutes because that's how
long the game was going before I could see it on the screen.
One last thing. I tried to compile pine, but it failed. I'll send output if
anyone wants it.
I'm sure having fun with this.
Russell
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