This is a binary release, with most components statically-linked. Well, there are some system-level dependencies involving video drivers, and OpenGL support in X, but nothing specific to Debian. I suppose that with some tweaking you could use it on any x86-based linux distro. As I told below : it works well on Gentoo, and others have already reported it working on Arch, Mint (maybe Debian itself ?)

Can't see why Suse and Fedora couldn't run this.

I was about to whine about this release being "Steam for Ubuntu" and not "Steam for Linux", but Google told me about this helpful wiki :

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam

The client I did install from the overlay works quite well, and Team Fortress too, despite very slow disk access (don't know if anybody experienced this on other distros...). Too bad I only can play one game from my 40+ library.

Mint has better colors.

No, seriously : just try it. You'll understand why many Mint users (who have tried Ubuntu before) like to point out they moved. The "classic" Mint is as accessible as Ubuntu without all the fancy crap (and better colors). It has a very slick UI, excellent configuration tools. The Debian edition of Mint (LMDE) is also rock solid and very easy to use for a newcomer (I mean, for a Debian distro).

Anything about Mint shows how serious and skillful they are at respecting their users.

IMHO, the reason you hear so much about Ubuntu is the great amount of Windows users who switched because some guy told them it was so cool and simple to install, and while that's true in many ways, they still don't know anything about linux and end up having a lot of problems using it. Or they just can't stand the colors and are getting nervous.

Note that I'm not a Mint user : I'm running Gentoo on my office laptop, and Debian on servers, so I'm not doing PR here.

You all should bow to Canonical and thank them for Ubuntu : the fact that it exists gives you the ultimate satisfaction of not using it.

Posted parent reply as AC, didn't notice I wasn't logged on. Must say I agree with myself.

It seems to me that in France, universities are in fact actually treated as ISPs and subject to the same legal requirements (logs retention, etc.).

Good old times, if you ask me.

In the archive, there is a post from 1981 in net.general mentionning a new hard drive with a capacity of 560MB, by DEC and selling for $38K-$48K.

Seems huge for thirty years ago.

Excellent idea you had, and a beautiful UI by the standards of 1981 ;)

Thank you for your work.

The Gnome 3 shell is not very different from Unity in this approach. Stupidest UI design ever.

Do they expect eveyone to replace their desktop PC with fancy tablets or touch-based phones, or what ?

"It shouldn't be hard to get some shared calendar services running on an extra box somewhere..."

This is hilarious and naive.

Believe me, setting up any kind of shared calendar in an large enterprise environment (read: hospital) today IS hard. You can't just put extra boxes "somewhere" as you need them. That's not how you build an IT infrastructure. You have to think globally. Think about maintenance, system administration, network access, monitoring, security, data backup, software upgrades, etc. And you can bet most "heads-of-something" will want to access those calendars with any device or software they prefer : "Hey I can't sync my cal with Outlook / Evolution / my iPhone / my Windows 7 phone / my Android one / etc. and I don't care why. Just get it working."

Basically, if there's anything you can do at home when toying with your computer, network or iPad, you probably can't and SHOULDN'T do it in a corporate network. And there are *many* very good reasons to that.

"No one would deny that 3D is more immersive, that's why people like it, particularly for gaming." So much assumptions in one sentence.

Hell, we need more words.

I for one have been having the same problem with a 2009 MBP, the one with a Core 2 and dual Nvidia cards (9400 ang 9600GT). Using any CPU/GPU intensive app while not in "Power saving" for more than 2 hours would lead to the whole left side of the case overheating seriously, and the screen eventually freezing. Remote login via SSH still works, btw, so I guess some GPU is to blame. Not sure if this really is a "2011" issue.