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 Re: Questions about distro upgrade? Steve wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing with Libranet and Debian. BTW: I used the Sarge Net > Install CD last night and it's great. Very easy and fast. I used it on a > Kayak XU 266Mhz. startx worked fine after I apt-get installed xserver > common and a few other items. > I have no experience with Libranet, but it seems like that it is a Debian derivant. > Sometimes on either Libranet or Debian Sarge if I apt-get install things, > xwindows stops working. Not everything I install. Understandable. > > I installed kino on Libranet (2.8.1) and the xserver stopped working. I > googled and found the cure but it was still a pain. I found later that > kino had a bug and this was a common problem. Ok. Did it also upgrade any of your x windows packages ? > > Deb Sarge was working great last night. I apt-get installed, abiword, > gnome, mozilla, galeon, icewm and a few others. Worked, and looked, great. > This am I apt-get installed firebird and something else and now xserver > won't start again. Can't locate a screen? I do understand it's testing. > Maybe I just need to go to Woody. No. I have a Sarge installation that has been working well for the past many months. The problem is that you need to pay greater attention to the bug reports that show up when you apt-get install. > > I am sure I'll be able to fix it with google's help, but what a pain. > > I have a couple of questions. > > 1.) Does this happen often to Debian when apt-getting? If you pay attention to the bug reports, no. > > 2.) I really like apt-get but is there another distro that doesn't have > this problem with upgrades? The problem is not with the distro, it is with the upgrading philosophy. One should upgrade only if one needs to. > > I really want to drop Win98 but can't until I get a handle on a few > things. > > I need to figure out how to > > 1.) Record Video using my older ATI All-In-Wonder. I will probably buy a > Hauppauge soon to help in this area. That ought to be possible with any Linux distro. > 2.) Record streaming internet radio. Every Saturday I record about 7 > hours. I'm sure I could have it run timed from a script in Linux. vsound + realplayer should do that. > 3.) Burn a VCD. K3b always tells me I have the wrong mpeg format. Nero > just burns it. I do simple editing with VirtualDub so that should be easy > on Linux. Look up vcdimager. > > Email, web surfing and ftp w/Linux are easy enough. I plan on trying to > build a Linux based PVR in the near future. > > Thanks for your opinions. > > Steve      |
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