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Yesterday, I installed a small Debian 3.1 image on a virtual server and then upgraded to 4.0 by performing apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade However, that was a minimal server image and didn't contain xserver-common and other desktop stuff. jay On 4/22/07, Kristian Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/21/07, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217 at gmail.com> wrote: > > This probably isn't what you want to hear, but my desktop has been > > running gentoo for a year now, and it's been great. Much more flexible > > than either debian or ubuntu. > > Yes, Gentoo is great. I used it for many years. But, how long does > it take you to compile Gnome/KDE? :-) > > > Of the two though (Debian & Ubuntu), I would definately pick Debian. > > Stuff in debian makes sense. Ubuntu drove me up the wall. It's not hard > > to setup Debian as a desktop (or Gentoo for that matter), and you get > > to choose what's happening, rather than on Ubuntu. > > Can you be more specific? Ubuntu is great for the desktop and chooses > the options that would most suit the end user. However, Ubuntu is > still based on Debian and I don't see where your bias for Debian fits > in and on what level... > > And for Flash on AMD64, you need to use nspluginwrapper: > http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/ > -- > Kristian Hermansen > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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