Hi Wouter,
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> The best way to get anything done in Debian is to do it yourself. If you
> want to encourage Debian to have Fluxbox as an easy-to-select option for
> a desktop install, I encourage you to talk to the tasksel maintainers
> and the
Hi Gunnar,
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> I mean, who needs a desktop? A background? Overlapping windows? We the
> *real* tech-savvy people only need a tiling window manager, such as
> i3:
>
> https://screenshots.debian.net/package/i3
> http://i3wm.org/
>
> I mean,
[M-F-T set, as this is getting increasingly off-topic]
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:16:55AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> I mean, who needs a desktop? A background? Overlapping windows? We the
> *real* tech-savvy people only need a tiling window manager, such as
> i3:
Nah. Awesomewm is much better! ;
Stephan Foley dijo [Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:37:52PM -0500]:
> Very true, I agree with all of your points. Going back to my original
> purpose of posting this question, I wanted to do a sort of "sales
> pitch" to encourage Debian to offer Fluxbox as a task in the
> installer. I actually wrote up a s
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:37:52PM -0500, Stephan Foley wrote:
> Very true, I agree with all of your points. Going back to my original
> purpose of posting this question, I wanted to do a sort of "sales
> pitch" to encourage Debian to offer Fluxbox as a task in the
> installer. I actually wrote up
Hi Wouter and thanks for the reply.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> It is fair to say that Debian supports:
> - Non-technical desktop users who want to use one of:
> - Gnome
> - KDE
> - Mate
> - Cinnamon
> - XFCE
> - LXDE
> - non-technical users who want to r
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:07:10PM -0500, Stephan Foley wrote:
> [Yaroslav Halchenko]
> >> And, I am tech-savvy :-)
> >
> > Why wasn't it enough to run these two commands?
> > apt-get install xorg
> > apt-get install fluxbox
> >
> > The instructions on the wiki metion only this:
> > https://wiki.de
Hi Paul and thanks for the reply.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> Replying with my fluxbox hat on, and perhaps Debian too.
>
> Well, patches to add some defaults in an external package is super
> welcome :)
I did put up a Fluxbox spec off of DebianDesktop:
https://wik
Replying with my fluxbox hat on, and perhaps Debian too.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:07:10PM -0500, Stephan Foley wrote:
> > Why wasn't it enough to run these two commands?
> > apt-get install xorg
> > apt-get install fluxbox
Yeah, Fluxbox is still not that out of the box. It's always required a
l
[Yaroslav Halchenko]
>> And, I am tech-savvy :-)
>
> Why wasn't it enough to run these two commands?
> apt-get install xorg
> apt-get install fluxbox
>
> The instructions on the wiki metion only this:
> https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox#Installation
grrr
Well, first off, I had to figure o
Hi Yaroslav and thanks for the reply!
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
> in my perception it is as good characterization as
>
>Keyboard is for writing SPAM and FUD emails
>
> i.e. you can definitely use it for that purpose, but not exclusively or
> might even that wouldn't
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Stephan Foley wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following:
> Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server market
> Is this a good characterization or am I off base?
in my perception it is as good characterization as
Keybo
Stephan Foley writes ("Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy"):
> [Andrew McGlashan]
> > Yes, it is certainly limiting my view of Debian to be one that is now
> > broken and definitely not what Ian Murdock envisioned many years ago.
>
> I haven't
Le 17/01/2016 00:31, Stephan Foley a écrit :
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:20 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
> wrote:
>
>> The main difference between Debian and Ubuntu is that the installer is
>> less friendly-user, and the firmware are not loaded by default. But I
>> think Debian is really the Univer
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:20 AM, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
wrote:
> The main difference between Debian and Ubuntu is that the installer is
> less friendly-user, and the firmware are not loaded by default. But I
> think Debian is really the Universal Operating System. And it's the
> characterization I
[Teemu Likonen]
> You have the old stereotype of Debian. The reality is different: the
> default Debian desktop install gives you a normal easy-to-use end-user
> operating system and applications. This has been the case for a long
> time but many people still maintain old stereotypes.
>
> Of cours
> [Miles Fidelman]
>> Used to be. These days, in the wake of systemd, at least this sys
>> admin will never install it again. The reasons are technical.
[Andrew McGlashan]
> Yes, it is certainly limiting my view of Debian to be one that is now
> broken and definitely not what Ian Murdock envisio
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On 17/01/2016 1:29 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> On 1/15/16 10:48 PM, Stephan Foley wrote:
>> Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following:
>>
>> Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server
>> market
>>
>> Is t
On 1/15/16 10:48 PM, Stephan Foley wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following:
Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server market
Is this a good characterization or am I off base?
Thanks
Used to be. These days, in the wake of systemd, at leas
Hello,
I don't know what is this characterization for, but I don't like it very
much. Indeed, it would make more difficult to explain, as I do with
Hypra or free software promotion organizations, that Debian is the best
solution for a universally accessible operating system (and I'm sure it
is). M
Stephan Foley [2016-01-15 22:48:49-05] wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following:
>
> Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server market
>
> Is this a good characterization or am I off base?
You have the old stereotype of Debian. The reality is di
Hello, I'm trying to characterize Debian and have the following:
Debian is for the tech savvy sys admin type and the server market
Is this a good characterization or am I off base?
Thanks
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