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Debian at 17: Still as Important as Ever
Posted: 29 Aug 2010, 01:10
by dedanna1029
So they say - never could get it to work very well on any of my machines, nor could I ever a distro with a .deb file system, other than ArtistX, which I no longer bother with because it now bases itself on KDE rather than Gnome.
Re: Debian at 17: Still as Important as Ever
Posted: 29 Aug 2010, 01:55
by viking60
Yes it is the most important distro together with Fedora. And it is the major base distro out there that is 100% community driven. Fedora is Red hat and company driven. Debian is older than Red hat only beaten by Slackware.
I had it working just fine on a laptop here some time ago,
Without Debian there would be no Ubuntu and xbuntus
Re: Debian at 17: Still as Important as Ever
Posted: 03 Sep 2010, 06:13
by gnuuser
this is a puzzler
Ive installed Debian Sid, and kde on many machines ( compaq's, gateway's, dell's, toshiba's and emachines)
Ive only had issues with wireless (winchips on them)on a couple of them and sound on one(fixed by a driver change)
Re: Debian at 17: Still as Important as Ever
Posted: 03 Sep 2010, 11:53
by viking60
Well I wouldn't use it for a desktop anyway it is a server by nature. Wireless does not play a role in the server part. But by all means it will do as a desktop too.