Journal CleverNickName's Journal: So, About Dapper . . . 24
For the last year or so, I've been happily using Debian, with a mixture of sources so I was stable, but current, just like nearly everyone who uses Debian.
Then I tried to upgrade or something insane like that, using aptitude, and the whole thing went tits up on me. No amount of cussing, kicking things, or actual tinkering with the software could save my machine.
I thought about asking for some advice in the Debian forums, or on one of the lists, until I ran out of fingers in my entire family tree to count the times someone said some variant of, "Shut up, noob! Your stoopid and not leet leik I am! Go back to Winblows! Ha! HA! HA!!!1"
Yeah. Guess I'm not venturing into those waters, so I figured I'd just have to grab my network install CD and start over (luckily, I set up
The day I planned to reinstall Debian, I read that Dapper Drake had been released, and everyone loved it so much, they totally wanted to marry it. A friend of mine, who is wise in the ways of science and the air speed velocity of unladen swallows has also been singing the praises of Ubuntu for a long, long time, so I grabbed a Live CD to see what all the fuss was about.
Holy shit. What an awesome bit of work it is! It's the first Linux distro to find every single bit of hardware on my old Sony Vaio desktop machine, including all the USB ports. It looked great, too, and was the most "Mac-like" Linux I've ever used.
I realize that a lot of you are mocking me right now, but listen for a second: I'm not interested in hacking on my kernel to make sure something is detected during boot, or modifying all sorts of settings in a text editor just so I can make the damn thing find my camera . . . and don't get me started about CUPS. I love technology, and I love and fully believe in "free" as in speech, and I'm grateful for free as in beer. But also really into "works," as in just does. And on my machine here, Dapper Drake just works, and it's awesome. This is the Linux distro that I can take to my parents, and to my friends who are drowning in a sea of FUD, and convince them that they don't really have to be part of the Borg if they don't want to.
And ultimately, I believe that has to be our goal if we're going to convince people to give Linux a real, serious try as an alternative to Windows. We need to be able to tell them, with confidence, "Put this CD in your machine, and give it a try. I think you'll like it, because it just works."
Well, then! (Score:2)
Dapper (Score:2)
I'm now using Ubuntu on all my computers (well, Kubuntu on my main desktop). Why? I'm tired of messing around with my operating system. Ubuntu just works. Now I can get some real work done. Now I can spend my day programming instead of messing with Linux. That's not to say that Ubuntu isn't the only good distri
Thank you (Score:2)
Breezy Badger (Score:1)
When badger was released, I didn't feel at all like downloading another ISO and starting over so soon; now seeing yet another glowing review maybe I'll do just that.
Re:Breezy Badger (Score:1)
No ISOs to download to upgrade from breezy to dapper. I've done it on several systems already with no problems.
Open (with root priveleges) the file /etc/apt/sources.list in your favorite text editor. Comment out (#) the CD line at the top, then replace every instance of "breezy" with "dapper".
Then, at a command line run the following:
Logout and log back in to get the new version of GNOME/KDE, reboot to
Re:Breezy Badger (Score:1)
Its getting there (Score:2)
Obviously, what you must do.... (Score:2)
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(Borg are wimps anyway - just Cybermen without the AuAllergy. Let's see a Borg cube up against a Dalek cruser: "Assimilate!" "EXTERMINATE!")
Hey, about 3 years ago you were saying you might take a run on Route 66 east, and I suggested a few stops along the way here in Kansas - last I checked your
Re:Obviously, what you must do.... (Score:2)
Dunno about CleverNickName, but I'd like to visit Kansas again sometime, if for no other reason than to see the Kansas Cosmosphere again. (I've been very disappointed reading about the eBay scandal.) At various times I lived in Olathe, Overland Park, and Gardner (all suburbs of Kanasas City to the Southwest in Johnson County), and I went to Johnson County Community College for two years.
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Insanely great idea (Score:2)
Thank you!
Same Here (Score:2)
I really like Ubuntu. It's Debian without the pain.
Now that Dapper is out I may switch my server over. Sarge + Backports works but can be kind of a pain.
No mocking here (Score:2)
Just installed too (Score:2)
I was also handed an old 867MHz PIII with 128MB of ram, and told "linux it." Thinking I would be smart and put XFCE on it I grabbed the Xubuntu [xubuntu.org] discs; 4 attempted installs later, I threw the CD out;
I feel your pain... to each his own... etc. (Score:2)
Distros (Score:2)
However, I recently assembled a new computer and my old one is sitting around
Re:Distros (Score:2)
Random tangent: Unladen swallows (Score:2)
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Debian. (Score:1)
Right now, the only unofficial Debian package source I use is debian-multimedia.org. But then, I use etch (testing), not sarge (stable).
HAHAHAHAH, n00b! (Score:2)