I've got a sort of hotch-potch of systems on here at the moment, and by no means classify myself as a linux Expert.... more intermediate than anything else.


i've got my main O/S running as Debian 3.0 in the unstable brance, KDE 3.1.1 and Gnome 2.2 etc, having loadsafun trying to break it and find faults... none serious so far.


I've also got Knoppix running on a scsi drive in my system, and i'd like to share some little titbits of info with the gent above asking about stable, testing and unstable versions, kde, etc....


You need to get a couple of programs, i've tested this with my knoppix install and it works for me. Dunno what version of knoppix it is, but it's got a 2.4.19-xfs kernel....

Firstly you want to do an

apt-get install synaptic

This will bring you a nice package browser that acts as a GUI for apt-get basically.

just run 'synaptic' from a command prompt


The version in unstable is the best one i've tried, it released tonight... well, sometime over the past few says, i'm on a modem and a dist upgrade takes a while....

another handy package is this...

apt-get install apt-spy

this is an ace idea... it queries the central debian database for registered mirrors, so you might want to try the following:

apt-spy -d unstable

if you wanted to see the goodies in unstable using apt or synaptic, etc.

Likewise, apt-spy -d testing or apt-spy -d stable if you are less of a nutter than I.

It'll update your /etc/apt/sources.list to the fastest download sites. this obviously takes a while, so put the kettle on and watch a DVD while it's runing

Sorry for topping an old thread, but it seemed unanswered so far.

/me goes off in search of kernel-headers to install Nvidia drivers


Regards...


Ed


Oh, i'm also paying to beta-test a third operating system on my PC, Windows XP, but TBH after experiencing Debian for about 5 months i've used it only a few times.