On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:54:23PM +0200, 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 enter "bf24" at the "boot:" prompt from the installation CD to get a 2.4.18 kernel with ext3 support or upgrade your kernel once you've installed it > - a KDE 2.0 add to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.2.1/Debian stable main -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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