two days ago , feeling unreasonably lucky I attempted to upgrade Kubuntu to new version 11.04 and obviously the process failed badly leaving the system useless and unbootable right from early bootstrap sequence. in a fit of frustration and being too lazy to reach the other workstation and get an updated version, i snapped in the oldstable Lenny DVD, the first thing i had in my hands, and installed debian to access my data (god bless /home partitions). it wasn't that bad (not even comparable to installing slackware and then having to fix manually, old-style, just about everything from audio/video/network drivers and the X windows system to to even the friggin' mouse scroll wheel and then compiling a carefully crafted kernel in order to make a PII 200 non MMX to perform acceptably :2thumbsup but it looked like a neat step backwards in the past (since 1999 I never had to mess again with a flatbed scanner, in that case i had to recompile the kernel -mandrake- to see OHCI USB ). now that almost everything is working fine i can sit back and enjoy Debian , at least until i take the hassle to do it again and install squeeze. so come on debianist hippie fellows , hope i can count on some Hip Deb Guru in case that i find myself clueless...
I use debian. By way of ubuntu 10. I'm lazy. I tried to set up arch on this machine..... gave up. Tried to set up gentoo, I was waaaay too much of a bitch for that one. Ubuntu just goes. Suse 10.0 was the shit. Then they tried to modernize it or something, and 10.1 was utter bullshit. I haven't looked back since ubuntu 10, though. Modern stuff is great. GUI's are great. But I like my damn config files where they belong, called what they should be called, and manually editable. And ubuntu SORT of does these :leaving:
another debian user, by way of puppy and slackware google is your friend - years of debian questions getting answered repeatedly in the forums mean you'll never have to ask if you do update to squeeze it's pretty easy, just don't try to do it from within the gui oh, and on the whole, i wish i'd stayed with lenny
oh well, of course- my first goal was to get in touch with other debianist fellow hippies or otherwise broadminded individuals :sunny: ...
ah, but you don't have to participate in the debian forums, just lurk i'm afraid of those places meself . . .
http://howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny-to-squeeze-in-a-few-simple-steps hopefully the link makes sense
i have been using debian and slackware for 9 years each now recently started firewalling with openBSD unix/linux is fun
likely it does. that will be my first attempt. if something runs wild (after all it was a wrecked kubuntu upgrade that stranded me on debian shores) , i can always revert to the dvd method...
