Debian!

[Ken Moffat]

I use gnome or xfce, having avoided kde for many years. I have always found
it sluggish, and isn't there a licensing issue with the underlying
libraries?
Actually, I haven't finished the upgrade, but according to the revamped
website, gnome is still the default.
Will post results in a day our two.

--
Ken
On Feb 7, 2011 8:08 AM, "C M Reinehr" <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> On Sun 06 February 2011 10:22:57 am Ken Moffat wrote:
>> hmm... started my upgrade process on Debian stable today (home server)
and
>> there is a new release, so 1718 packages are downloading. I wasn't paying
>> much attention when I started it, so was surprised at the size. On my
>> rather slow DSL connection that is well over an hour of download time.
I'm
>> hoping that, since it's the stable version, the upgrade will be painless.
>> We'll see....
>
> Ken,
>
> What desktop environment do you use? I installed a beta version of Squeeze
a
> few weeks ago & noticed that they've switched to KDE4. I've used KDE 3.x
for
> years but KDE 4.x seems like a completely different environment. It also
> seemed excruciatingly slow on startup (user login).
>
> Would be very interested in your thoughts & observations.
>
> Cheers!
>
> cmr
>
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