On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is > that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and my > experience with using .tar.gz files for installing software, rather > than .deb packages, is that the .tar.gz files are messy to install, > and the effects horrendous. Actually, the tarballs from Mozilla aren't source, so they don't require installation. You can run the firefox/seamonkey/whatever binary from the directory you extracted it to. > I also found that, from what I understand, Debian 5.0 requires java, > in much the same way as (and with far greater system vulnerability > than) > MS Windows has been requiring Internet Explorer. This is certainly not true. Java is in the non-free repository, which would make it impossible to include in the default distribution. Debian doesn't really require anything, anyway - you don't even need X. > superuser privilege is limited, and, it uses an unwieldy means of > identifying partitions, making modifying the fstab and mounting > partitions, somewhat traumatic, instead of simply using the hda<x> > or /dev identifier, which would make system administration, much > more efficient. That's probably UUIDs. Debian does this as well. I'm not well versed in the advantages and disadvantages of UUIDs, but I do know that they never change, unlike files in /dev. -- Brian
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