An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement
For a while now, I was not happy with the speed my Debian GNU/Linux booted. It was taking approximately 1:10 minutes to drop me in the GDM prompt. Today, I decided that I will try to probe into what exactly is happening. I have already heard of bootchart ...
There is an official confirmation about the release date of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 a.k.a. "etch" in the Debian announcement list. It is going to be released in December 2006. That is going to be pretty quick compared with the previous release cycles. Take a look at ...
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praveen@aphrodite:/home$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade...Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
cron debianutils flac gnome-about gnome-desktop-data info libaudio2 libflac7 libgnome-desktop-2 liboggflac3 openssh-client openssh-server reiserfsprogs ssh texinfo
15 upgraded, 0 ...
If you have cups installed on your Debian and facing issues in printing from Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Acrobat Reader, you might want to try installing cupsys-bsd.
I am literally breaking my head for the last two days on installing Debian on my new Toshiba A80-P4321 laptop. I hope I will make some progress tonight. I will write a a new post on the installation.
I am really not able to make a clear decision (still) in terms of the distribution to use on my desktop at home (Debian or Ubuntu). I was running Debian SID previously. Once Ubuntu 5.04 was released, I have switched to Ubuntu and came back to Debian again after ...