Chad Waters on 26 Oct 2007 15:21:50 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Gutsy


Wow, check out deborphan. It will help you clean up old obsolete
libraries left behind after all those upgrades.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deborphan
http://debaday.debian.net/2007/10/21/deborphan-find-packages-you-dont-want/

-C

On 10/26/07, Jonathan Bringhurst wrote:
> Same kind of experience here. I'm actually running a small time web
> server at Temple University that started off with an install of Breezy
> Badger and was upgraded to each release including Gutsy. I haven't had
> any problems with it. Fairly surprising since a ton of stuff was
> modified.
>
> -Jon
>
> On 10/26/07, JP Vossen   wrote:
> > I just finished an upgrade to Gutsy on my "kitchen" laptop.  It went
> > flawlessly, and I now have a MythTV frontend there too.  (It works, but
> > this laptop is an old Latitude P3 with 512M RAM--a tad slow for TV.)  If
> > I have any complaint about the upgrade, it's that it kept stopping to
> > ask if I wanted to overwrite various modified config files.  Of course I
> > appreciate that, but you can't just fire and forget, you have to babysit.
> >
> > I love that you can now drag&drop "buttons" in the task bar to reorder
> > them.  Being the creature of habit that I am, that's a critical feature.
> >   Oh, and TuxPaint has some new brushes and a better organized "stamps"
> > tool, which my 3.5yo likes.  I don't have any hardware new enough to use
> > the new eye-candy, which usually just annoys me anyway.
> >
> > But the really interesting thing is that this laptop is old and has no
> > working CD ROM.  So the initial install in Fall of 2006 was via a Debian
> > netinst floppy set which I hacked in mid-stream to install Dapper
> > instead.  I then later upgraded Dapper to Feisty (which required an
> > intermediate upgrade to Edgy IIRC).  Now I'm running Gutsy.  And it
> > just...works.  Try that with an RPM based system.  Or a non-Linux
> > system... :-)  (How does Solaris do with that?  I've never tried.)
> >
> > :-)
> > JP
> > ----------------------------|:::======|-------------------------------
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> > ----------------------------|=========|-------------------------------
> > Microsoft has single-handedly nullified Moore's Law.
> > Innate design flaws of Windows make a personal firewall, anti-virus
> > and anti-malware software mandatory. The resulting software arms race
> > has effectively flattened Moore's Law on hardware running Windows.
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