For some reason, my /usr partition (2.5 gig) was getting rather full and I figured I'd just reinstall when I had the time. Since I have exams on monday, I don't have any time but somehow I installed Woody on my laptop. I think it was Schwern who called me a Debian person when I told I usually spend quite a lot of time tweaking and adding/removing stuff before I'm actually happy. I've been using RH for the past 5 years and I felt comfortable with it. The thrill of a new dist was appealing and 36 hours, 2 gig transfer, 5 kernel panics, 7 reinstalls, 2 CDs, 4 ISOs and lack of sleep later, I got a very skinny Debian. I'm still swearing and cursing and missing a lot of my old things. Fluxbox doesn't come with the remember patch, my soundcard apparently doesn't work properly, fonts in X are TOO big, I had to cheat to get phoenix installed, etc...
Well, maybe I'm just looking for excuses to get RH back on here. I'll decide after I get back from Avoriaz. A friend suggested I'd drop by with my laptop to fix half of the dist I claim isn't working. Maybe I'll take him up on that offer. I'll have to reinstall my windows 2k as well :(It's b0rken for sure...
Speaking of Avoriaz, I'll be there from the 7th til the 16th IIRC. That means I'll miss Valentines Day... that means I can't get a card sent to Ann :( Which means I'll have to take my cellphone to France to get a message thru.
YAPC::Eu 2003 Call for Papers is open and I sent in my proposal : Image manipulation in C and Perl. I'm also considering contributing some articles to TPJ/TPR/DDJ. We'll see after I get back. The conference is from 23 til 25 July and chances are I'll be on vacation at that time... I hate to miss the conference :(
Re:Welcome to the light!
Beatnik on 2003-02-02T11:04:49
Well, it's probably me nothing having the time (and the motivation) to look into it further right now. I'll probably end up using it for a few weeks and decide then if I'll jump back. I'm sure that I'll eventually can like it, it's just that there are quite a few things different than before. Ofcourse, it took me to time to get used to RH:))
We'll see how I end up.Re:Welcome to the light!
Dom2 on 2003-02-03T10:24:59
Heh, debian was definitely "no return" for me - I installed it, spent two weeks getting annoyed by things that worked fine in RedHat and never returned to it.Of course, at home, I'm still using FreeBSD, which I find to be better than both. But I need good ldap and PAM integration at work.
-Dom
