Re: Debian has turned unusable.
On April 12, 2004 10:54 am, Trollcollect wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> after 3 days of twiddling with a "recent" copy of
> debians woody release i need to vent a bit of the
> anger and frustration that this distribution has
> caused.
>
> I want to start with saying that i was a strong
> advocate of debian compared to distributions such as
> RedHat and SuSE. Being a UNIX admin professionally
> (Solaris mainly), i felt home on a debian system
> pretty quick, and the packaging method was unique
> among all linux deriatives i have seen. Also i used to
> like debians approach of stability before
> bleeding-edge stuff.
>
> However as i have to install a small network now (7
> WS's and one server), i have to reconsider this
> assessment. I downloaded woody (2 failed attempts to
> get an installation CD with the new jigdo method).
> What i got after installation was
> - a 2.2 Kernel without ext3 support
> - a KDE 2.0
> overall totally outdated and useless versions of
> libraries and software.
You installed stable. You really don't want to run stable if you're
looking for a desktop system. Perhaps debian should put a note to that
effect on the website.
Add the unstable sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then use
aptitude (apt-get install aptitude) to upgrade KDE.
~leo
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