On 06/19/2015 12:23 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 19 June 2015 16:54:12 Bret Busby wrote:Unfortunately, it appears that once a version of Debian Linux is "released" and decreed stable, development of that version and its packages, ceases, and it goes into maintenance mode, so that only bugfixes and security vulnerabilities, are performed, if they are deemed serious enough, and, for the packages that are not abandoned, and, development of the version and its packages, is abandoned, like when I once worked at a pulp and paper mill, which used to close down production for three days every christmas, with only repairs and maintenance and cleaning being done, except here, the shutdown of production, becomes permanent, and maintenance mode takes over (for as long as the maintenance is performed), once a version is decreed stable, and "released".If you don't like it, don't use it. No-one is making you.
If he would just take "squeeze" out of the equation, it ~might~ help. From what I read it won't be a simple matter of installing a nvidia driver. He's got this video chip hybrid from Hell, and Bumblebee is ~supposed~ to be the cure. If it were me, I would install Jessie so fast it would make your head spin. I would want my OS to be as recent as my chipsets (only two years old) Others report success, with Bumblebee, but there is quite a bit of hand-wringing going on. My two cents, Ric
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