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If Debian was named after a rapper I would leave Linux all together.

I actually do tend to check Distrowatch every other day or so. I'm always curious to see what is new and what not. I'm always trying new distributions in Virtual Box but none of them give me reason to leave my current Debian install.

If security ever became an issue in the Linux world. I'm sure I would consider a BSD flavor if I had old enough hardware.

Hello everyone. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I've gotten my hands on a new laptop the other day and I'm simply trying to get my wireless card working. Machine: Compaq Presario CQ56 OS: Debian Squeeze 2.6.32-5-amd64 lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller H...

I understand. Thanks for clearing that up!

ON your website you have a single screen shot:



I have to ask since I'm a bit puzzled. I'm not looking at GNOME, am I?

Welcome.

Welcome.

Hey, I care!

United States. I'm in Indianapolis for the time being however I'm from Texas. I'm hoping to make it back down their for the Linux Fest in Austin February 2nd. http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/ Maybe I will see one of you there? I absolutely love how many people all over the world share a great common i...

What about the Unofficial Maintainers repository? http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/ Does anyone beside me use it? :shock: From the top of the page at that site (bottom of the About): Note: This repository will not be updated anymore. After the squeeze release, it will be removed in favour o...

What are you looking for? I would strongly discourage enabling all of those repositories.

Excuse my ignorance of these matters, but I thought backports would deal with stuff like this: I mean, won't Xfce 4.8 be available as a squeeze backport once squeeze is released? That's what I was thinking anyway... If anything, I would think it would be in Unstable once Squeeze is released. Once i...

What about the Unofficial Maintainers repository?
http://unofficial.debian-maintainers.org/

Does anyone beside me use it?

There was another thread a while back discussing sudo. At the time I would use sudo off and on when I needed it. When I would need root privlages for just a moment I would use sudo. However, if I was going to be needing root for a while I would use su. Now, it's been a few weeks since that thread an...

Or there's Foobnix and its magical music downloads: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/foobnix-very-interesting-new-local-and.html Packaged it for a Lenny-based distro's community repo, but chickened out actually adding it--it makes getting almost any song too simple. The RIAA would not be amused. Mayb...

Hello and welcome! Pardon my silly question but, what is the xenir repository you have enabled? I've never seen it before. Enjoy Debian! :D I installed this: sudo apt-get install apt-mirror Then I loaded synaptic clicked on repositories then I selected the fastest mirror it picked. For some reason ...

Hello and welcome!

Pardon my silly question but, what is the xenir repository you have enabled? I've never seen it before.
Enjoy Debian!

Very interesting. Thanks.

Very nice! I'll be using this for a while.