I suggest you install sarge and immediately thereafter install kernel 2.6.5 "Trollcollect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello list, > > after 3 days of twiddling with a "recent" copy of > debians woody release i need to vent a bit of the > anger and frustration that this distribution has > caused. > > I want to start with saying that i was a strong > advocate of debian compared to distributions such as > RedHat and SuSE. Being a UNIX admin professionally > (Solaris mainly), i felt home on a debian system > pretty quick, and the packaging method was unique > among all linux deriatives i have seen. Also i used to > like debians approach of stability before > bleeding-edge stuff. > > However as i have to install a small network now (7 > WS's and one server), i have to reconsider this > assessment. I downloaded woody (2 failed attempts to > get an installation CD with the new jigdo method). > What i got after installation was > - a 2.2 Kernel without ext3 support > - a KDE 2.0 > overall totally outdated and useless versions of > libraries and software. > > I then tried to figure out how to update those > packages i need in recent versions. As i know KDE from > Solaris, i trust enough in their own QA procedure to > consider their 3.2.1 stable enough for usage. Why > debian believes KDE 2.0 is more stable, or even usable > at all, is beyond my understanding. > > However it turned out that i could not update only > selected packages easily. In fact neither of dselect > or apt-get seemed to have a method to do this in a > sensible way. > > Now it MAY well be that i am just an idiot who is not > capable of doing this, however i asked in a few linux > related channels and also at work, noone could tell me > how to set up a half-way decent debian without > compromising the pkg system. Sure many told me to > build it all by hand but then, without the packaging > system what good is debian? > > I hope that whoever is responsible for the direction > debian is steering to currently thinks about the > target of the whole distribution, which is to provide > users with a decent linux system that comes stable, > yet with all neccessary parts to be competetive among > other distributions. > > > > > Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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