Happy Birthday Debian

Happy 15th birthday Debian

Trying to etch Debian on my laptop

Well looks like my hard-disk is soon going to be hating me. My affair with Feisty isn’t looking too rosy. Right now I am getting Debian Etch 4.0 on my laptop while I am blogging at ease from Divya’s terminal about which she has no clue.

How come I suddenly decided to get Debian???

That’s a good question and it has many answers. First of all the excessive guification of Feisty is really bugging with strange instabilities which caused 3 crashes on my system. Time for a rock stable distro and Debian is obviously the choice.

Recently I started trying out my hand at making Debian packages and with some libraries listing their version as ubuntu12 and so on and to find the corresponding Debian version while making the packages was really becoming irksome.

Finally Debian with being the only sole GNU/Linux distro in the GNU/Linux sense was a lucrative option for a long time but Etch convinced me to get it as soon as I could. Since Etch comes out in 21 months flat which is quite timely as on schedule considering the 18 months release schedule of Debian and it also packs a punch with a lot of cutting edge recent packages as compared to archaic Debian standards. Also the look of Debian Etch and Debian itself convinced me to get it and to be honest the HBCSE fantastic link line helped me with the net install.

The next paragraph might seem a bit out of sync and flow and blah blah blah according to the technical Divya but that is because I had discontinued writing the blog entry and am re-continuing it now(after 4 days I guess). Debian Etch is working great on my laptop , the only problem is the battery time is not being detected properly and I have got to read it directly from /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state , but then I got a 686 kernel and a rock stable and reasonably up to date system to work on.

Probably I will look into getting Beryl on my laptop and then I will answer all those people who say its old fashioned to use Debian in their own modern ways with the Freedom associated with it.

 

Debian GNU/Linux rocks and this is the last of my installation fests I hope.