Debian testing install

[David Bandel]

On 11/24/06, Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> On Friday 24 November 2006 12:45, ded wrote:
> > <snip>
> > But, when I got
> > to the desktop there was this irritating orangish looking icon
> > telling me that there were updates?
> > <snip>
>
> Dan,
>
> Which desktop did you install and what application gave you the icon? I've
> done several Etch installs over the past couple of months without seeing
> that. I'm wondering if it's something new within the last month, or if you
> just installed an app that I haven't.
>
> Like you, I think they've done a great job with the new installer but there is
> one feature that I don't care for and don't use--installing the desktop
> environment task. First, it installs Gnome by default whereas I prefer KDE
> and second, it installs everything up to and including the kitchen sink. I've
> learned to do a minimal install & then install the KDE apps seperately. I
> suspect that you selected the desktop environment and go a lot of Gnome
> applications that I never see.
>
> Cheers!
>

Well, I'm so Debian old school (I ran Debian before I ran Caldera), I
use dselect.  I also never use the tasksel interface, I skip it.

I haven't yet seen what you're talking about, but I don't think I
would even in graphical mode, since I use wdm and openbox.  If you use
KDE or Gnome (shudder for both), expect a Windoze look-alike,
feel-alike.  OTOH, if you use openbox, blackbox, fluxbox, etc., or
even XFCE, I doubt you'll see the dumbed down part so much.

Here and I'm preparing classes to show folks how to get the most out
of ip (vice ifconfig and route which to me are dumbed down admin
tools).

Anyway.  I think they're doing the right thing(TM) for the Windoze
crowd.  They need it.  You don't, but don't let that stop you.  Try
twm or just a CLI (don't install X -- on servers, I don't).

After all, Linux is all about choice.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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