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What distribution of Debian do you use?
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Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
I use Stable for regular desktop usage, web browsing, VLC, Xchat, Audacious, some games, etc.
I hated the 6 month upgrade cycle with Ubuntu.
Can't decide if I want a rolling release or not with testing or unstable or stick with stable.
I don't want to fix things all the time but I would like newer software I think.
I hated the 6 month upgrade cycle with Ubuntu.
Can't decide if I want a rolling release or not with testing or unstable or stick with stable.
I don't want to fix things all the time but I would like newer software I think.
Debian 6.0 AMD64 64-bit 2GB Ram 250gb hard drive XFCE 4.6 Squeeze
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Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
If you do not like to break things at all stick with Stable, you could use backports for some newer apps or the Kernel, LibreOffice is in the backports now also is a newer Kernel.linuxforever00 wrote:I use Stable for regular desktop usage, web browsing, VLC, Xchat, Audacious, some games, etc.
I hated the 6 month upgrade cycle with Ubuntu.
Can't decide if I want a rolling release or not with testing or unstable or stick with stable.
I don't want to fix things all the time but I would like newer software I think.
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Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
Yeah I'm looking into the backports actually.ivanovnegro wrote:If you do not like to break things at all stick with Stable, you could use backports for some newer apps or the Kernel, LibreOffice is in the backports now also is a newer Kernel.linuxforever00 wrote:I use Stable for regular desktop usage, web browsing, VLC, Xchat, Audacious, some games, etc.
I hated the 6 month upgrade cycle with Ubuntu.
Can't decide if I want a rolling release or not with testing or unstable or stick with stable.
I don't want to fix things all the time but I would like newer software I think.
Thanks a lot.
I really like having a stable system.
Debian 6.0 AMD64 64-bit 2GB Ram 250gb hard drive XFCE 4.6 Squeeze
Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
After a while with stable, I ended up enabling backports.
What a fresh breeze! Backports really have the best of both worlds: stability and new software.
So I'm now running Squeeze with Iceweasel 5.0, Icedove 3.1 and LibreOffice 3.3.1.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the poll, I think it turned out to be a nice picture of Debian user base.
Don't stop voting and commenting!
What a fresh breeze! Backports really have the best of both worlds: stability and new software.
So I'm now running Squeeze with Iceweasel 5.0, Icedove 3.1 and LibreOffice 3.3.1.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the poll, I think it turned out to be a nice picture of Debian user base.
Don't stop voting and commenting!
Acer Aspire 5920 | Debian Squeeze | Xfce
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Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
Yes, it is a really pleasant experience.rent0n wrote:After a while with stable, I ended up enabling backports.
What a fresh breeze! Backports really have the best of both worlds: stability and new software.
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Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
My debian path so far -> Testing(When squeeze was testing) -> sid -> testing(Wheezy) and finally, i realised that latest isnt always the greatest, and here i am running Debian Stable with backports
Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
Linux q35joe 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Debian is very nice and it ROCKS!
With Iceweasel 5, VLC player, gnome-rdp etc etc.
Debian is very nice and it ROCKS!
With Iceweasel 5, VLC player, gnome-rdp etc etc.
Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
I'm back to running Old Stable. And that's where I'm going to stay for a while. I have no need to buy new hardware and the newer kernels just don't like my Radeon 9800pro. I can tinker with it. i can futz with it. But Lenny just works. Always has. Also Never been a fan of KDE4. I even went so far as to jump over to PCLinuxOS for a bit. But the rolling release hit the same issue, my Radeon. Eventually that failed too. So pulled out my old Lenny install custom cd's and put it back. I lost Kopete in Yahoo, and Xmms is still MIA but everything else is back. And that's how it'll stay until I find something that really catches my eye. And sorry, Squeeze, not it. Wheezy, ditto.
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Re: What distribution of Debian do you use?
Ditto.ghostblader wrote:My debian path so far -> Testing(When squeeze was testing) -> sid -> testing(Wheezy) and finally, i realised that latest isnt always the greatest, and here i am running Debian Stable with backports
The latest may be the greatest, and I DO love to see the distro evolve, but testing does some unexpected things at the moment, so for me it's stable + backports and some virtual machines, sid + various DE's being most used.