On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:17:58AM -0600, Dave Babb wrote: > Good Morning, > > > My current distribution of choice is Arch Linux. Arch is too techie for > my daughter, who wants to admin her own system.
Hi Dave, welcome to Debian. The last distro you'll ever use. I'd suggest you and said daughter to join the debian-women mailing list. They are trying to make get women into Debian and help make Debian more man/women/people friendly! > > I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for "Sarge". Opps! you make 13 CD too many! :-) you just get cd #1 and install base + x + gnome or kde. After that, you use aptitude to get the rest from the 'net! > > I backed up her /home/* directory to CD and began the install last > night. I'm puzzled. Good! always save the $HOME. > > > Default Kernel still in the 2.4 series? > An old Gnome? > An old KDE? There are 2.6.x kernels avaible. 'Stable' is meant for Production servers and is the easiest to maintain. If you want Gnome 2.10 which is full of untested bugs on your $MEGALOMART server, don't call us when it crashes and you loose $BIG_BUCKS. there are folks who run 'testing' or 'unstable' for servers, but you have to know the RISKS first. If you/she runs Stable, it WILL NOT CRASH! (at least that what it says in the brochure). And it will be the easist to maintain and learn the in/outs of Debian. > > In fact, most of the packages are behind the times, some by a little, > some by a lot. > > I didn't expect this in a release hot off of the presses. > > The package system on the Debian website still shows KDE 3.3.2 as the > version of choice. I didn't see an option to upgrade to a newer version > either in testing, unstable, or stable. You are correct. There is a version of 3.4 in the alioth server, though. See message in this list with in the last 2 days for hints. Although, Gnome 2.8 is being phased out and Gnome 2.10 is comming it. BUT this will lead to instability if you are not careful AND TRY to upgrade gnome. Read messages in the past few days for more hints. > > I have NO INTENTION of flame-baiting, or other immature behavior. I do > have genuine puzzlement as to why the old stuff instead of fresh stuff. Debian is focused on STABILITY. Anything new by default does not fit that requrement. Debian has a development model that allows bugs to be found and rechecked before anything is considered OK. Sometimes Debian is behind the cutting-edge, sometimes it is ahead of the curve. But it depends upon how you judge things. Cheers, kev ps. If you want an overview of debian, checkout my diagram. Its a bit overwhelming, but it MAY(or not) help answer some questions. http://debian.home.pipeline.com/ the latest diagram is 'newdebian2.png' -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! `$' $' $ $ _ ,d$$$g$ ,d$$$b. $,d$$$b`$' g$$$$$b $,d$$b ,$P' `$ ,$P' `Y$ $$' `$ $ "' `$ $$' `$ $$ $ $$ggggg$ $ $ $ ,$P"" $ $ $ `$g. ,$$ `$$._ _. $ _,g$P $ `$b. ,$$ $ $ `Y$$P'$. `Y$$$$P $$$P"' ,$. `Y$$P'$ $. ,$.
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