christophe barbé on Fri, 17 May 2002 23:18:28 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] debian mpeg video player


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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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