christophe barbé on Fri, 17 May 2002 23:18:28 -0400 |
I agree that debian is cerainly not the most newbies friendly distribution. And clearly work need to be done and, in fact, is being done : on the installer side the progeny installer (have you tried this polished debian distribution ? now it's too late) is being reworked to become the new installer more user friendly. And what I understand as user friendly (stuff like Ximian RedCarpet) is most of the time a nice relooking of something already there. I greatly appreciate the SuSe contribution to the Free Software but is the last distro FREE ? IIRC Yast2 is proprietary and prevent any legal CD copying. Is there a community version ? Christophe On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:00:45PM -0400, Noah Silva wrote: > "Polished" means everything works, without having to make any changes to > config files, everything works as expected, etc. Debian is nice, but it > is certainly rough around the edges in some places. That isn't a big > deal for unix buffs, but it is for end-users used to mac or windows or > other more QA'd systems. (not that everything works in windows he he). > > The KDE3 in Suse is polished fairly well in that it doesn't look or act > like bleeding edge. > > Don't get me wrong, for me, I prefer debian too, that's why I use it. > But it needs work in some ways. > > -- noah silva > > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:07, Fred K Ollinger wrote: > > > Have you looked at Suse 8.0? Much more polished than debian, while > > > > I have heard the word 'polished' before, but I honestly don't know what it > > means when referring to distros. I think it might me guified. > > > > > including very new stuff (like KDE 3). I use woody on my desktop, but > > > the updates often break things (Galeon a couple of weeks ago when a new > > > mozilla was added, apparently without checking), and potato is very out > > > of date for desktop app stuff (I use it on some servers). > > > > Anyway, debian _does_ have kde3, it's not going into woody, though, as > > kde3 is bleeding edge > > > > > > ---fwd--- > > > > > > deb http://kde3.geniussystems.net/debian / > > > > apt-get install arts kdelibs kdebase (etc...) > > > > currently you must purge all kde222 debs first (i will fix this for final) > > apt-get remove --purge kdelibs3 > > apt-get remove --purge libarts > > > > NEVER use dpkg --force-* it will most likely permanently break your system > > requiring a full reinstall > > > > official liquid > > http://arachni.kiwi.uni-hamburg.de/~harlekin/debs/ > > ia64 debs > > http://debian.litux.org/debian/unstable/kde3/binary-ia64/ > > > > Fred > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. --English proverb Attachment:
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