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
> [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
[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
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
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
[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
Hello, not sure if this is the right list. I'd like to contribute a
little Python coding...nothing huge, under 300 lines would be best. I
could either work with an established project or rewrite something.
One thing I recently discovered is python-debian. It has a nice
routine to parse deb822 file
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
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
[Amruth Chand]
> Hey, why ain't anyone bringing in dwm? Sure, no config is a bummer...But
> just a few thousand lines of code sure makes it compile fast. Add dmenu
> and powerline and it is pretty awesome!
I like the whole suckless.org philosophy. I've never used dwm, but I
know people love it and
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,
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
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