Spending a little quality time re-configuring my (main) desktop. Decided yesterday that I'd switch from SUSE 9 to Debian on my desktop. I've been enjoying using Debian on my server so much that I decided it was time to start using it on the desktop as well.
I cheated a bit, though. While I have no problems with installing Debian on a server, getting everything just so on a desktop machine is a little more effort-intensive. I wasn't really in the mood for twiddling bits just to get sound working, so I installed Xandros 2 (Business Edition) and then swapped in the Debian testing repositories.
So far, so good. Xandros is a fantastic distro for ex-Windows users. However, there are a number of packages that simply aren't available through the Xandros repositories that I can't live without. Case in point, I don't believe that you can even get dig from Xandros...
On the suggestion of one of my co-workers, I installed Rhythmbox right away as well. Not sure if I'll ever go back to XMMS. It's quite the spiffy MP3 player. I tried to compile Rhythmbox on SUSE, there were so many broken and missing dependencies that I finally just decided it wasn't worth the time that I was spending on it.
I think I might spend some time next week checking to see what man pages are missing for Debian and see if I can't whip up five or ten to help out...
apt-get your way to happiness
Spending a little quality time re-configuring my (main) desktop. Decided yesterday that I'd switch from SUSE 9 to Debian on my desktop. I've been enjoying using Debian on my server so much that I decided it was time to start using it on the desktop as well.
I cheated a bit, though. While I have no problems with installing Debian on a server, getting everything just so on a desktop machine is a little more effort-intensive. I wasn't really in the mood for twiddling bits just to get sound working, so I installed Xandros 2 (Business Edition) and then swapped in the Debian testing repositories.
So far, so good. Xandros is a fantastic distro for ex-Windows users. However, there are a number of packages that simply aren't available through the Xandros repositories that I can't live without. Case in point, I don't believe that you can even get
digfrom Xandros...On the suggestion of one of my co-workers, I installed Rhythmbox right away as well. Not sure if I'll ever go back to XMMS. It's quite the spiffy MP3 player. I tried to compile Rhythmbox on SUSE, there were so many broken and missing dependencies that I finally just decided it wasn't worth the time that I was spending on it.
I think I might spend some time next week checking to see what man pages are missing for Debian and see if I can't whip up five or ten to help out...