How is the feel of Debian?I want to try out some other distribution at some point in future.
i can understand about 30% of japanese words they speak in anime.Hope to improve that rating.
Voltron was really something ,so was force five.Those were really precious memories.I like cartoons too,who can forget fantastic max,Centurions,fantastic four,captain caveman,bird man,flintstones,jetsons,original gi.joe ,jhonny quest ,scooby doo,richie rich ,phew list is endless.I have stopped keeping track of the anime,jdrama i watch.Too tiresome.But i do make a note in a “.txt” file though
Watched almost all Gundam series out there except “chibi” ones.you know
I would definitely recommend Debian to anyone wanting to try different distros.
It’s just a very simple & straight forward gnome desktop.
Without any of the extraneous junk that comes with Ubuntu or Mint.
The multimedia stuff from debian-multimedia.org, development versions of Iceweasel from mozilla.debian.org
Be careful with nvidia drivers. Nothing wrong with them, there’s just a few different ways to install them in debian. Choose carefully.
If you go the sudo route, you have to also run gksu-properties & change the option from su to sudo. Then run graphical root commands with gksu.
My advice with any installation is to keep your home or raid as a separate drive to the operating system.
Debian releases are ‘Stable’ (currently Squeeze), ‘Testing’ (currently Wheezy) and ‘Unstable’ which is always called Sid.
And never listen to anyone that tells you that Sid is too unstable to use for your main computer.
Sid is the most stable ‘unstable’ linux you could ever wish for. I use it all the time, I have Sid on my old laptop that I’m typing on right now.
If you do want to have a look at Sid, install a command line Stable, skip Testing & dist-upgrade straight to Sid. Restart then install a desktop environment. I have found this to be the least buggy method of upgrading.
I prepared a few screenshots for you but I can’t post them here. You’ll really like my half Japanese approach.
I’ll post them on my website & edit right here >>> in a little while to tell you where to find them.
opensuse forums allows editing upto 10 mins only of making a post,not beyond that
Pics looks great.Is gnome 3.0 also available in current stable release?
Gnome 3 is a disaster in Debian at the moment. That’s the whole reason I’m using opensuse right now.
The only way I’ve found to get a properly working environment with Gnome3 & Debian is to start with a ‘command-line only’ installation of Sid (as I described earlier). Then install only gnome3 (not gnome2 first). There is absolutely no way that I have found to upgrade from gnome2 to gnome3 without small disasters. So, from the command line of Debian Sid, you have to enable the experimental repo, refresh package list, then;
gnome3-session is a hidden metapackage. If you do a regular search through Debians package manager, even with the correct repo enabled, you won’t find it. So the above command is the only correct way that I’m aware of to install gnome3 under Debian.
Also be aware that, while gnome3 itself is from experimental, it does require dependencies from earlier repos during the install process. I left all 4 repos enabled (squeeze, wheezy, sid, experimental) just for the installation of gnome3 then disabled all but Sid once it had finished.
The only other thing to be aware of is that you need a 3d capable video card that;
a) Is capable of direct rendering without needing a proprietary driver.
or
b) Has it’s proprietary driver already installed & direct rendering working before you boot to gnome3.
Failing those, the best case scenario is ‘Fallback mode’ which looks more like gnome2, the worst case scenario is not being able to get video at all.
I did end up with a completely successful install on my older laptop, but had to abandon it due to lack of 3d.
The laptop has an older ati that, for some reason, no ati driver will play ball with.
