[GRLUG] Debian Release Party

[Steve Romanow]

On 2/4/2011 1:30 PM, Ryan Pusztai wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:slestak989 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have installed Mint Debian on my main machine and it is okay.  A
>     little rough on some points, but I am not sure I am sold on Unity
>     Desktop.  I am going to wait a bit for Gnome3 and then compare the
>     two to see what meets my needs.
>
>
> I am also switching to Mint Debian for main desktops at because of the 
> rolling release cycle. So for I am in love. The only part that Ubuntu 
> has done very well is the "Hardware Drivers" install dialog for Wifi 
> and Graphics drivers. Those seem to be way more manual to install in 
> Debian. But I have got them working, so I am very happy with 
> my experience so far (about 2 months).
>
> Also I really miss the PPAs for Ubuntu. Can they be used on Debian? Is 
> there a similar idea for Debian?
> -- 
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
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I do not know about the ppa's.  I doubt it is a good idea.  I had to 
break ranks with win 1.3 and just use dpkg -i with the mepis deb.  It 
workd for me, but ymmv.

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