Re: Debian has turned unusable.
I suggest you install sarge and immediately thereafter install kernel 2.6.5
"Trollcollect" <trollcollect@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> 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 overall totally outdated and useless versions of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.
>
> I then tried to figure out how to update those
> packages i need in recent versions. As i know KDE from
> Solaris, i trust enough in their own QA procedure to
> consider their 3.2.1 stable enough for usage. Why
> debian believes KDE 2.0 is more stable, or even usable
> at all, is beyond my understanding.
>
> However it turned out that i could not update only
> selected packages easily. In fact neither of dselect
> or apt-get seemed to have a method to do this in a
> sensible way.
>
> Now it MAY well be that i am just an idiot who is not
> capable of doing this, however i asked in a few linux
> related channels and also at work, noone could tell me
> how to set up a half-way decent debian without
> compromising the pkg system. Sure many told me to
> build it all by hand but then, without the packaging
> system what good is debian?
>
> I hope that whoever is responsible for the direction
> debian is steering to currently thinks about the
> target of the whole distribution, which is to provide
> users with a decent linux system that comes stable,
> yet with all neccessary parts to be competetive among
> other distributions.
>
>
>
>
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>
>
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