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Firefox user but I have installed Chromium (only to check how big it gets over time hehe) too - use lynx in case I'm too lazy to fire up Firefox/Iceweasel (put tears here).

Longtime XFCE user but switched to Cinnamon and I like it (nothing wrong with XFCE I got bored and installed Cinnamon). Hi Gyokuro. I've never warmed to Cinnamon -- it reminds me too much of KDE. Hello and good day Rildebai, never really liked KDE - KDE 3.5 was ok, Gnome 2.2 was fine but I cannot e...

Longtime XFCE user but switched to Cinnamon and I like it (nothing wrong with XFCE I got bored and installed Cinnamon).

It's new and needs time but why should not try something out different where more developers are working on it - it's another part of the system which is somehow under the umbrella of kernel.org people. Development time says nothing about the maturity of an application and sysv as it seems to be sta...

Well I'm not posting that much but I'm watching this systemd dicussion since the beginning and in my opinion it will be another short-lived useless fork in case it's a fork and not a debian flavor with another default init system (and how many people play every day with their init system?? server on...

Started with FreeBSD but went later to Debian due to not all hardware was supported but I still use FreeBSD from time to time (spare machine for testing various applications or whether my hardware is supported now - which isn't - most of the basic UNIX stuff I learned with FreeBSD and worked for a y...

The title is about Jessie's kernel not the Init system but in case that much users are against systemd what should be used instead so that the same people which are whining about systemd are happy again? The problem is the alternatives are not better as the elected one.

I have no influence which one get the default one for Jessie but after some time with Gnome3 I will stay with XFCE4 or Mate and my opinion about the default init system is mine - I only know that none of them is perfect (I worked with sysv, smf why not another one ;-) ). Various people make a drama ...

The process which patches get merged from upstream is open due the Ubuntu's kernel maintainer send the patches for further review to stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and Ubuntu's kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com so there is nothing secret in it. I think the biggest problem is that pe...

Wheezy with backports here and it's fast, lower memory footprint and much better like the classic mode of GNOME 3. I think with jessie mate spin I will say bye bye Gnome 3

Yep - I have at the moment > 38.000 mails and copied it from my old Squeeze box to Wheezy and the files are still stored in (dot)icedove (I have rsynced all over ssh due the large amount of data (mails, newfeeds,...)) and like you non of this emails should get ever lost. Have you already tried to re...

It's official confirmed that Mate 1.8 is in the debian repos: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.de ... ral/193841

Hi All! Surfing the net I stumpled over following post: https://micahflee.com/2013/11/canonical-shouldnt-abuse-trademark-law-to-silence-critics-of-its-privacy-decisions/ even EFF responded and for me another point in my long list why do not use a certain distribution. What's your comments or is it n...

Doesn't Debian include all kinds of neat codecs in non-free now? So basically just find them in synaptic, as long as non-free is enabled. Which hey you can do from synaptic. Rock on. :evil: Welcome! :) Concerning the codecs I was woundering this myself as in case I use Ubuntu and want to listen mp3...

Hi That's an good idea but I do not know how much experience you have and therefore I suggest that you read "The Debian Administrator's Handbook": http://debian-handbook.info/ and to test whether your hardware is compatible with debian I suggest that you try one of Debian's live images: ht...

In case you use Icedove (Thunderbird) you should rename your .thunderbird directory to .icedove

With current stable upgrade freezes should be fixed : @Gyokuro: Based upon what specific bugfix? And, to which package(s) are you referring when stating this assumtion? gnome-shell hasn't been updated since July. Additionally, this thread contains references to many different causes of "freeze...

With current stable upgrade freezes should be fixed :
uname -a
Linux frankenstein 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux / gnome-shell 3.4.2-7+deb7u1

A lot of problems occur as people do not read and I try to explain why Debian do not ship certain parts within their distribution and in case I recommend someone debian that's always stable and one of the Live Systems (http://live.debian.net/) ( stable+nonefree ) - it works and they are happy. A lot...

I'm interest in and I think that profiles should be improved as some profiles are really relaxed but my biggest problem is that most profiles should be overworked upstream and all Ubuntu references should be replaced with distribution agnostic names (abstractions/ubuntu-browsers-d/chromium-browser> ...