Debian: I like it :)

[Hanasaki JiJi]

1. Debian provides "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"  Actually it works 
for almost any package.  If this doesnt work, as can be the case with X, 
there is the old fashion way "vi".

2. Stability comes with a price.  ie: can be a bit slower / behind on 
versions.  Sarge is in a feature freeze and pretty darn stable.  I have 
heard many claim www.gentoo.org is really good and stable.  Peeked at it 
a bit.  The version numbers are more current.  It is a source 
distribution, meaning, the binary install is very small and then most 
everything is built from sources (ie: long install time).

"woody" is the current "stable" version of debian.  "sarge" is currently 
testing.  "sid" is always the name of the unstable version  ALA Toy 
Story.  Note, only "stable" gets good/timely security fixes.  Not a bad 
policy, if you think about it.
	irc support is good     :  irc.debian.org - channel #debian
	listserv support is good: www.debian.org - find the link

Hope this helps.  I am on debian woody and sarge.  A few key packages 
have been manually replaced for newer versions: java from Sun, nitely 
builds of mozilla :), exim for email.

James Colannino wrote:
> Hey everyone.  Based on my recent troubled with freezing apps under 
> rpppoe and Slack, I decided to give Debian a try, given it's reputation 
> for stability.  I must say, I like what I've seen very much.  I have a 
> few questions though (please note that I haven't gone much into a debian 
> system yet:)
> 
> 1) When I tried to 'startx,' I got the error, "No screens found."  I 
> installed KDE and Gnome, and I ran multiple methods of configuring X, 
> but to no avail.  What's going wrong?
> 
> 2) It installed KDE 2.2.2.  That is extremely old.  I know they have a 
> rep for being stable and that there is a reason, but how would I go 
> about updating to a Debian-specific version of KDE 3.1?  Likewise, I 
> would also like to upgrade GNOME.
> 
> I think there was something else, but I can't remember.  If anyone has 
> some help they could offer me, I would be very grateful.
> 
> James
> 
> 
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