On Monday 09 May 2016 17:37:06 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable > > proposition for the desktop. > > True. The software versions are obviously quite old, and not all > packages are supported[1]. Previous LTS releases did not support > graphical web browsers; I don't know whether that is the case for > wheezy LTS too.
If you liked the older kde, then trinity is the old kde-3.5, forked, with all the known bugs fixed. Google TDE. They have an active mailing list, and very active development if you've elected to use the r14 branch. I am, no surprises yet in about 9 months now. > > I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers. In > > Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by > > aptitude? > > No, obsolete packages such as openjdk-6-* are left untouched[2]. It is > up to you to remove them. > > 1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_for_unsupported_packages > 2: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading >.en.html#obsolete Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
