think I've settled

[Myles Green]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:33:36 -0700
"Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/20/07, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
> > A dual-boot system: Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy)
> > upgraded to Feisty and Debian 4.0 Etch (or at least what will be
> > when it ever gets released :).
> 
> So, if you're happy with Feisty, you must have hit the sweet spot  in
> between or after the initramfs-tools fiasco (no boot) and the python
> fiasco (gnome desktop gone) <grin>.

I guess so, 'cause I didn't hit any glitches this time around. Then
again, I've been using one of xfce, fvwm-crystal or icewm lately.

> I've just put up for grins a Dream Linux system (Etch/testing plus the
> latest XFCE; based on Kanotix). It's supposed to have all the
> multimedia stuff built in, but I can't get mplayer to work for movie
> trailers, so they missed something. Also, they stuffed the CD ISO
> image too full, so I had to burn it to DVD.
 
Yeah, I tried dream linux using vmware-server (it's free, unlike the
workstation) so I didn't hit that but I kinda wondered about it when I
saw the size of the iso image. With vmware you only need the iso image,
just make sure you point the cdrom to the image and not the device when
you set it up. Saves buring a lot of CD's that way, just try it on
vmware first, except for slackware (and vector) linux as it doesn't
seem to recognize the vmware drives for some reason.

Regards, Myles
-- 
Myles Green
Geek by nature. Linux by choice.
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It's already tomorrow in Australia" (Charles Schultz)