[wplug] Tried several distro's

[mike at dmrnetworks.com]

That's because you have a "stable" install. 
The next thing you need to do, sucks but is a blessing in the same sense, is 
to upgrade the system.  look in /etc/apt/sources.list

If you want up-to-date configure sources for testing and unstable as well as 
stable.  IF you really want bleeding edge packages, configure sources for 
experimental.

apt-get install -f && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

should get you going.

something that i'd like to suggest to new users to debian.  Download knoppix.
The 700M Live CD contains most packages that you would want from the get-go.
Knoppix is also based on debain unstable and has the new kde and 2.4.20-xfs 
kernel.  It runs from the CD so you can check it out and see if you like it. 
The install is easy...  # knx-hdinstall   will get ya going.

Mike


On Thursday 10 April 2003 7:53 pm, R.E.Coutch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been testing several distro's this week.
>
> Red Hat 9
> Mandrake 9.1
> Debian 3.0r1
> SuSE 8.1
>
> As someone else mentioned,
> Red Hat 9 has improved fonts when web browsing thanks to an updated X
> and anti-aliasing in Mozilla.
> I swear it runs fasted than RH8 did on the same machine.
> The install went flawlessly.
> They still only have part of the cryptoAPI stuff installed and no ALSA (
> if this matters to you).
>
> Mandrake also installed flawlessly and like Red Hat, had up to date
> software and a 2.4.21 kernel.
> It still uses linuxconf and sndconfig like old Red Hat.  It only offered
> ext2 and ext3 on install, however.
>
> The Debian was an interesting experience.
> As someone (on the list) mentioned, it doesn't use a GUI for
> installation but it is menu and question/answer based.
> It reminds me of old Borland TurboC for DOS programs with its drop
> shadowed text based "windows".
> The Debian really likes to chit-chat during install by throwing out
> little factoids about the software it is installing.
> This could get really annoying after an install or two. There's probably
> a way to do a silent install.
> The strange thing was that I had to manually configure my XF86Config-4
> file because the one the system generated didn't work.
> What really surprised me is that it installed X version 4.1.0 (over a
> year old) and KDE 2.1.1.
> A lot of my favorite kernel modules could not be found even though I
> searched through the kernel module menus in the install program.
>
> Did I do something wrong? I though Debian came with KDE 3.1 and Xfree86
> 4.3.
>
> I'll mess with it some more tomorrow. Anybody have any suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
> BTW - I don't want to become annoying with my little editorials. If you
> think I'm overdoing things a bit ( I am one of the rookies on this
> user's group),
>                drop me a note and I turn it down a bit.
>                Otherwise you're going to hear all about SuSE 8.2 after I
> get a chance to try it out.
>
>
>
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