[wailug] July Meeting

[Nic Bellamy]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:59, Blair Harrison wrote:
> Wouldn't generally recommend debian as a desktop, as the stable versions
> don't tend to have the features we all know and love.. Nic might
> disagree though :)

Actually no, I wouldn't. Both my wife and myself use it for a desktop,
but that's because (a) I'm capable at managing it, (b) I don't want to
"waste" a machine on another distribution, even if it is more
immediately desktop-friendly (over 90% of the stuff I develop runs on
Debian, so that's what's best for the development thereof).

Getting Debian to the stage of a comfortable desktop takes a while, even
for me, and I've been using it as one since... err. 1998 I think. But
once going it stays going, and has all the home comforts I am used to.

Although I must say: apt-rpm is a *GODSEND*. It has taken Redhat out of
my Little Black Book of Evil into my Just Don't Particularly Like It
book.

Regards,
	Nic.

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