My experience with Debian
I’ve now been using Debian for about three weeks. And I like it :-) It’s a little confusing in the beginning, but now I feel that I understand most of it.
The package-management system is just great, after you get used to it. I
run the unstable branch, called Woody, and this means that the packages
are updated quite often. And when they do, they sometime break! At one
point BBDB stopped working in
Gnus. It was strange, since I didn’t remember
messing with it. But one or two days later a new version appeared, and
when I installed it, the problem went away. So with
Debian you really get the chance to try out the
vary latest software. So far, this has been the only incident of this
sort. I hope they watch more carefully before they make a new version of
something important, say lilo :-)
I’m also eagerly awaiting a new version of Mozilla. I’m currently using M18, but they’ve already made both a version 0.7 and 0.8. But so far, there hasn’t been made any debs. The same goes for Enlightenment. I haven’t compiled the new E17 yet, because I don’t want to mess-up my new tidy system. But I’ll probably do it after all, when it’s useful for everyday work.
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