Topic: 9.04 to Statler - What do I need to know

I've played around a little bit with Statler on an old machine, but don't have a lot of time to explore all the nooks and crannies or thoroughly read through all this forum's posts so . . .

In terms of day to day use of Statler, what differences from 9.04, if any, do I need to know or learn about - configuration, repos, updating, etc.?  Or is the basic operation exactly the same as 9.04 with the exception of different software packages or changing to xfce?

thanks

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Re: 9.04 to Statler - What do I need to know

There are some good resources, i'm sure people will point out to you.
Are you using the XFCE version of Statler, or the Openbox version?

There are very few major differences...
First, there isnt jockey-gtk for debian/Statler, so no 'restricted device manager'.
Configs are the same for openbox, you shouldn't use any ubuntu PPA in your sources, instead debian has 'stable', 'testing' and 'unstable' repos, unstable being the newest and most buggy, stable being the oldest but rock solid. #! uses Squeeze, which is the release that is currently 'testing', but will soon turn into 'stable'. You'll want to look up how to pin apps, so that you can get some updates for certain applications via 'unstable' without having to convert the whole system (for instance), you'll also probably want to choose if you want to convert your system to stable, testing, or unstable. For some people, thye prefer the newer updates.

Now if we look specifically at your day to day use as you requested, all your application use will be about the same, though you'll get updates and fixes much quicker (with 'unstable' anywyas).

You'll be using iceweasel by default instead of firefox, but they function about the same, and inceweasel supports the same addons as firefox.
Theres less applications in statler right now by default too, btw.

But really, you should feel right at home with the openbox version of statler smile

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Re: 9.04 to Statler - What do I need to know

I'm using openbox version. 
re: "pin apps".  Is this as simple as using different repos (e.g. testing vs stable) for selected apps?

Re: 9.04 to Statler - What do I need to know

This tells you all you need to know about apt-pinning (and quite concisely too)
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

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