On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:43:53AM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote: > Greetings all > > I just made the move from SuSE 10.3 to Debian Etch. > > When I updated from SuSE 10.0 to 10.3 I found myself > disgusted at how unpolished and rough it was. Things > that worked before didn't after the update. XMMS was > gone, I couldn't play MP3's, the online update feature
I think xmms is no more anyway. > was broken, and even Audacity (an audio editor) appears > to have been setup so it wouldn't read in MP3 files. > (This is how I convert the MP3 files I get a hold of to OGG's.) Also stock Debian. You have to get "lame" from http://www.debian-multimedia.org > Debian Etch is by far better polished than SuSE 10.3. > And as I have tried out previous Debian versions I must > say that Etch is the best version of Debian yet. Even > with the apparent license paranoia over the Acrobat > reader and Firefox. (Both Free mind you) Although, > there might be more to this than I am aware of. There is. See the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (DFSG) I'd say a search on google for something like "Why isn't firefox in Debian" should, hopefully, provide a reasonable answer. > (One request though. I prefer KDE and it would be nice > to have the option of which GUI I would like to use, > as it took a bit of hoop jumping to get the system > loaded with KDE.) > > Overall -- Great job Debian Developers!!!!!!!!! > Keep it going > > Walt > in Boulder, Colorado > > (I wouldn't mind joining the effort once I get through > a few more of my comp science classes.) Have a look through. http://www.debian.org/devel/ -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
