Re: [SLUG] distro recommendations

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2007 - 21:53:16 EDT


> Good, that'll probably actually work.
>
> I installed Xubuntu from scratch. First, it didn't install the user "eben".
> When I manually added that user, nothing I wrote to /home showed up. "sudo
> synaptic" and "sudo aptitude" didn't work, and "add software" (or whatever
> it's called) wouldn't resolve dependencies. Gnome suddenly wasn't there (I
> didn't uninstall it). xfce was installed by default, but looked just like
> Gnome (is that normal?). Reinstall! I got an md5 mismatch on a .deb file.
> I'd say not all the bugs have been worked out of the (text-mode) installer.

Well, I'm not sure about the other difficulties, but yes, the default
xfce configuration looks very similar to the default gnome
configuration.

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