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Stupid post I reckon, but I set aside my Debian Sid Xfce for the day because I wanted to check for any updates [there were a few] to my Debian Squeeze Xfce, both on my 1015PEM I bought last June. I had forgotten just how smooth, how quick Squeeze was, is, and just thought I'd say so. 
Nice. True, Squeeze is unbeatable, fast, smooth and greatly STABLE as a rock, you cannot move it.
But hey, my Sid box is also all that just moving really fast for shiny new things, I love it!! And I love the challenge.
Debian saved me of all the madness of distros and hopping and trying to find something better.
Yes. I know. Really, I wish other people would try Sid using the smxi script, it makes it so easy to maintain. But since I'm enjoying myself so much today I decided to get my original model ASUS 701 4G which also has Debian Squeeze Xfce out of storage and run the current updates on it, too. These include Debian stable, backports and Iceweasel backports. Now that I think of it, I'll replace flashplugin-nonfree with the Debian Multimedia repos because I've noticed lately [on my 1015PEM] that things just seem to be nicer, easier though I can't say for sure what or why. Very subjective experience. 
EDIT -- it's not about DM self-updating, that's not it. Oh, I just can't put my finger on it or put it into words. Do you think I ought to accept the good things in life, the things that work and be happy?
Last edited by dubois (2012-01-18 22:29:03)
Stable was amazing, but it had one big con. It set my standards way too high. I use a PC running Windows every now and then just to play my video games and what not, more often than not, that thing is going down and restarting. For all I know, I'm imagining the problems.
I'd trust my life-support to Stable if I could.
lekoraco@mrdeb ~ % lsb_release -d
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze)
lekoraco@mrdeb ~ % uptime
23:29:58 up 8 days, 11:51, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.18, 0.22My average uptime is in the 15-20 days vicinity. And I have kexec-tools, so I only see my BIOS when I backup my root partition every two months or so. The only reason I'd use Testing or Unstable would be for hardware specific needs and Slackware is pretty much the only other distro that holds an interest for me.
Debian stable rocks. If I didn't like FBSD so much I'd use Deb stable. One thing too, if drivers aren't a prob using debootstrap and chroot you can run Testing/Unstable apps in chroot jails very suave. Very good OS.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356
lekoraco@mrdeb ~ % lsb_release -d Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze) lekoraco@mrdeb ~ % uptime 23:29:58 up 8 days, 11:51, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.18, 0.22My average uptime is in the 15-20 days vicinity. And I have kexec-tools, so I only see my BIOS when I backup my root partition every two months or so. The only reason I'd use Testing or Unstable would be for hardware specific needs and Slackware is pretty much the only other distro that holds an interest for me.
That's quite impressive. Is this a netbook I wonder?
Remember today's Unstable is tomorrow's Stable. 
...to everything there is a season...
I've been thinking about reverting this desktop back to stable after getting a ton of memory leaks. Then today I updated my kernel and xorg and some things and it appears to have gone away....but it always seems to do that and then come back. It also might be because I deleted my swap partition.
Remember today's Unstable is tomorrow's Stable.
you mean today's testing.. but yeah it had a nice ring to it
I love how debian does this.. it's like the same ole chunk of change since buzz or whatever it was called with loads of patches new software evolved into what it is and now super solid. Kewl stuff.
My uptime on #! configured with SID is over 2 months. And even then I only reboot to update the kernel. All other updates are "in place" and that's using apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.
-H
My uptime is regularly between two or three days when I have hard work to do but otherwise I shut my laptop off to save some energy.
Uptime -- that's something I've never tried to achieve, simply due to lack of space to leave my netbook running, even under suspend, for an extended time. I mean, my cats wouldn't even give it a passing thought were it to sit but I reckon it's just as easy to turn it on and off as needed, otoh...
@dubois, I hear ya partner. I simply don't either for power usage and needing the space.
^ A bit OT but someone asked me once why I continued to use a netbook instead of a desktop computer. This was online but lets assume there was a long pause on my part before I replied
I don't have a desk?
Lac.k of space can sometimes be a hindrance and sometimes the impetus to become creative. 
Well, I've decided to go back to using Debian Stable, an Xfce netinstall with #! gray theme. I couldn't stand it after using it again for several days. No need to go on and on about how solid it is, or how smooth it is, or how, at least on my netbook, it seems as fast and as fluid as Sid. No, no need to mention that the apps are as up-to-date as I need and no need to mention backports for those that I may feel are must haves like Iceweasel. No, I won't say how it meets or exceeds my needs and for a small, lightweight and complete OS and no need to say that once configured, the Broadcom wireless works well with the network-manager-gnome on my 1015PEM 2GB RAM. No, I won't say any of that. I'll just go ahead and use it and feel confident that, for me, I know I did the right thing.
^Well said dubois.
Yes, well said what you did not want to say in the first place, but were glad to get it off your chest 
^He said it with a "wordaround"!
I'm using Debian Squeeze Xfce as my primary OS on my main system and I'm happy as a penguin. With some packages pulled in from backports (kernel, iceweasel etc.) and a few carefully selected ubuntu ludic ppa's for bleeding edge stuff I need, it's the shiz!
Last edited by Vegetarian Spelling Unit (2012-01-21 13:37:51)
I have point-release #! plus careful apt-pinning for some stuff I really need cutting edge versions of. Love it. Hasn't broken anything that's not my fault for breaking it. 
Once I learn to sort out dependencies properly, I'll compile full time. I just managed to compile aria2.
BTW, I'm a woman.
Last edited by duderocks (2012-01-21 14:03:29)
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