[wplug] My Debian died

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Brandon,

No real help on the first problem on what to do with your "apt-get
install disaster" problem, but if you're looking for a debian distro
that is still debian to the core, but with software that is a bit more
up to date, I would recommend Ubuntu.  It's funded by Mark Shuttleworth
(founder of Thawte and a cosmonaut) and employs a lot of the bigtime
debian hackers.  All changes are propagated back to debian.  When it's
time for a new release, a snapshot is taken of debian and the project
goes from there, adding in patches, updating software, etc.

I've been running it on my laptop and my MythTV box for the past few
months with some really great success.  The niceties of debian, with
Gnome 2.6 and scads of up to date software.  Plus, if you visit their
site, they'll mail you some CDs for free.

--Patrick

PS. I ran into the same problem with debian a few years ago.  I decided
I need to strike a balance between bleeding edge and stability.  I went
back to Red Hat/Fedora for a few year in the interlude before switching
to Ubuntu in September.

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 21:33 -0500, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> I have two questions here for Debian users.  I'm on Testing. First, 
> assuming I use apt-get exclusively for software installation, where can I 
> see a list of the last 'n' packages installed?
> 
> Second, did something crazy just happen recently with the Debian packages? 
> Out of the blue, my xmms just stopped working, telling me that it can't 
> find libmikmod.so.2 --I've never had this problem before, but I go to 
> apt-get install libmikmod2 and apt cheerfully asks me if I wnt to download 
> 404 MB of archives and update virtually every package on my system.
> 
> I have just never learned much about apt, but I was wondering if I missed 
> a memo.
> 
> This may well be the end of my stay with Debian (or at the very least, 
> Debian Testing) considering how many unsolved problems I am facing that 
> don't seem to have answers short of myself personally delving into the 
> source code (something I'm not prepared to do, considering how hard I am 
> having to work just to keep even with people who persistently mock me for 
> not using Windows).
> 
> Anyway, so I was wondering (with regard to the first question) what I 
> might have recently installed that broke xmms, and (with regard to the 
> second), whether I should ditch this distro.
> 
> -Brandon
> 
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