ON TOPIC: comparative distros (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!))
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:49:18AM +1200, cr wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > I tried Mepis for a while. It was fine for the 1st six months or so,
> > > but once the testing and unstable got out of sync, I had more and more
> > > problems adding packages when I had to.
> >
> > I just got it because it had an easy install and installed decent video
> > drivers. For older machines Debian's fine but for my game machine I just
> > don't want the hassle of configuring every little thing by hand. It's the
> > one machine I want to just run as I use it to relax. :)
> >
> > > (Or has Mepis gone to the Ubuntu repository now, like
> > > Libranet and some other distros did?)
> >
> > Not sure. Ubuntu's repositories are one of the reasons I don't like
> > it. If Mepis went that way I'd be a sad panda.
>
> HEY!!!!
>
> Since this thread has drifted back to Linux distros and hence is almost On
> Topic for this list, how about labelling it clearly "ON TOPIC" so we can tell
> it apart from all the other hundreds of recent posts??
>
> ;-)
>
> cr
>
I have debian on most of my machines here. I'm currently running Ubuntu
on my fastest machine because X keeps crashing in Debian (yes, I've
reported the bug). Except for that one detail, Debian works just fine.
ON Ubuntu, though, I just get boxes instead of characters in xemacs.
-- hendrik
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