alright folks, give me some ideas as to why there are differences between these two laptops.
i loaded Debian on my first laptop, changed my sources to my favorite ones, installed all the programs and codecs i could think of that i might want. then i did the ol': dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt i then loaded a base Debian install on my second laptop, changed the sources like on my first laptop, and proceeded to run: apt-get update dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt apt-get dselect-upgrade everything loaded just fine, except i notice that there are differences in things like my Gnome icon for battery/charging/plug. it's different than my first laptop. also after an update last night on the second laptop i lost a desktop shortcut to the /share partition that was there initially. (i haven't updated the first laptop to see if the same thing will happen.) the Gnome versions should be the same (2.14.3 i think), so why the minor discrepancies? they are not "show stoppers" by any means, i am just curious. thanks, preston -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]