On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 09:02:12AM -0400, Roy wrote:
> I believe that you now have to pay for Elive. You get a crippled demo only
> when you download it for free. As for OpenGEU and its move to Debian, I wish
> them well.
>
> I don't think that many users will be happy in the end. If you install
> Debian stable then you get an old kernel that is equivalent to what Intrepid
> had and you can't even access ext4 partitions. You are turning back to clock
> a year and a half. That is the price for using Debian stable. If they go
> with Squeeze or Sid then those who crave stability will complain. It is not
> as good as it seems on first glance.
>
I remember when I used debian. It was simple to track testing and
unstable for packages that I wanted the latest and greatest. So it
seems like a good move to me. I still like slackware best though.
> I run Sidux (based on Sid) and it works for me. I had Debian 5 installed but
> could not stand the old outdated programmes and kernel and not being able to
> use my Wacom tablet without editing gconf and not being able to access ext4
> partitions. I stayed in it just long enough to know that I was stuck in a
> time warp and had to leave as quickly as possible.
>
>
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