Just putting the finishing touches to my newly installed Debian 'Etch'. I have a new speedy connection from Sky with 16Mbps and a Netgear wireless modem/router (108Mbps), all for £10 and my KDE is working flawlessly. I might as well kill myself now.... it will not get much better Windows? I do not think so...... *sniff*
Congrats, sabashuali! I really love Etch on my desktop also, Debian gives you so much flexibility it's amazing. I like the testing branch inparticular because it's still Debian-stable, yet it's got all the latest toys. Seems like a perfect balance! I'll probably stick with the testing branch even after Etch is released.
Congrats too. Hows the new Sky connection? I was going to switch...but certain other factors of my current ISP... and rumours from a certain someone is keeping me for now .
I am no Linux wiz by any means..... Yet, this one feels wholesome and... well.... what I have been looking for. It is an amazing distro, easy to set-up and yet feel like I am up there with the big boys.... I had a good feeling about Etch, new Kernel, KDE3.5 and I was on the button! Everything worked out of the box and anything what did not, was just a few click away with synaptic. What a :swear: software manager...... Even when I eventualy remove Gnome, I am going to keep it.... Ha, listen to me driveling on..... Even gloomy Gnome looks brighter out-of-the-box in Etch... Well, it can go back in the box - KDE IS KING! Now, the big Q is how long before I get itchy fingers.... :doh: Sorry... replied before Addis and AT's second - *Demon was good but even though I was supposed to be connected at 1.1Mbps my downloads rarely hit more than 100Kbps. I have already seen over 500Kbps with Sky.... However, speed is not everything. So far everything seem to be working fine and rock solid. I can only hope it will stay this way.... *What's my Desktop Pager? :O
Good stuff So I suppose once you find a good suite of video tools in Linux you will make the switch for good? Avidemux is a good video editor [ot]Everyone seems to be ditching Mandriva! I've heard some really negative things about them recently. Some of the Mandy developers have come out and said Linux will never be ready for the desktop. Well that's not the kind of attitude you should have it you are developing one of the most successful distributions to date. I've heard that Mandy 07 isn't supposed to be very good either. Aside from XGL there isn't much exitement. My Mandy 07 DVD should arrive in a few weeks with my magazine subscription so I guess I'll have to wait and see[/ot]
Mandriva 2007 seemed ok to me, although there were a few issues (i haven't tried the new release, only about RC2), there were some things which were better on 2007, e.g. wireless network tools, and the control centre was beefed up a bit. Some changes to urpmi as well.
It is the little box on your toolbar with the different numbers (which represent each desktop) and you can switch desktops with it. What AT was referring to is the fact that your toolbar is transparent but the pager is not. If you want to make it transparent, you can right click on the pager and go to show->transparent.
I'm actually running Debian Unstable now (sid). I had Etch, but upgraded to unstable because I wanted some packages like vlc palyer that was only available in the Stable and Unstable repositories. The upgrade just required me to update my /etc/apt/sources.list to say sid. Then: Code: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade the distribution. It worked flawlessly, installing a new kernel as well. I've only experienced one bug, which was in OpenOffice where it would crash (only OO though, not the whole system) when I typed. This issue was fixed within 2 or 3 updates.
nahhh, I am happy with Etch. So far only one crash and that's from firefox. However, I quickly rectified this by installing Opera :chk: Now, I have but two problems at the moment: I cannot get Digikam to talk to my Cannon A520 and I know of no program which will manage my very simple generic (probably chinese) MP3 player. So any suggestions? KDE detects my camera but does not detect make and model and will not see any images on the newly detected device....
What about formating from time to time? How can I do this? My player has to be formatted to FAT(16). Thanks Mega!
If the player can appear as a mass storage device, and appear as a dev block device like /dev/sda1 etc, then a mkfs.vfat command should do it. (can't check the exact command, in college at moment).
It will not get better then this - Update No, it will not get better. Found a way to work my MP3 Player (not through Amarok unfortunately....) and I am sure that eventualy I will get my digicam to work. I swapped my webcam to a Creative one and then realised that, heck! I do not really need it :doh: I only use it for Skype, if I ever video call anyone and capturing images is ...... well...... naff! So there, I am more or less done. Here is my plan for the future: Clear my windows data partition of all the junk, transfer Windows to my smaller drive (40GB - more than enough as there will be very little activity there) and then give Debian the lion share of the rig... By the way - I want to create the following partition table (idea taken from Mandriva's default table ), for my future Debian install: 1. Root(/) partition 2. Swap 3. Home(/home) apart from the swap which is normaly logical, does the /home partition need to be primary as well or can it be logical? What is the best way? And, and, and what will be a good size for the / partition? Ta everyone!
The /home partition can be stored on a primary or logical drive. I usually reserve about 10GB for my / partition.
It will not get better then this - Update I would recommend putting swap on a primary partition and keeping it as close to the front of the drive as possible. The best for performance would be to make / small and only hold /boot, /sbin and other essentials. This would be maybe 64MB (thats right MEGAbytes) or a little more then swap, then the rest of the file systems. If you want room for expansion, leave one pirmary partition clear. Something like this: Partitions: 1] root (64-200MB) /boot /sbin / 2] swap (double RAM) 3] blank (for future OSen) 4] extended 4a] /usr /var /bin and others 4b] /home It looks confusing, I know. The simple version would be this: Partitions: 1] / (8-15GB) 2] swap (double RAM) 3] blank 4] extended 4a] /home
I generally have separate /, /home and swap partitions. My swap partition almost never gets used when I have 512mb.
