Re: the basics of using a PCI video card

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:44:43 +0200
UZnal wrote:


> That sounds like an early adopter of unstable operating systems, but then, I
> suppose, your tasks are not critical, or but just tailored to specific
> aspects isolated from the unstable parts of the system which you do not
> touch anyway.

Unstable parts? I am not sure if i understand now. Sid is unstable meaning
that the packages may be horrndously buggy. Any and all packages. Sid is known
to go casters-up, unstable on Debian means that the software has not been
checked for stability or installability yet, that is why Sid is there for.
Masochists and developers use Sid to see if the packages can be admitted to
testing.

>
> A recent experience: On Debian with Mozilla and StarOffice, within minutes
> the system came to halt, crashed on few ordinary clicks any inexperienced
> user would easily reproduce.

That information is not too useable for debugging as of yet. What version of
Debian did you install? I hope it was Sarge. StarOffice? I don't think that
is in Debian at all, at least apt-cache search on Sid turns up nothing. If
it is not on Sid, it is not on Debian. Installing non-debian stuff does
break the package system and if something goes wrong with the install...
very hard to fix and almost impossible to isolate the problem.

I am not sure how you installed Mozilla and StarOffice, apt-get install foo
is the way to go. apt-cache search foobar finds what is available, never
install from source or non-debian packages unless you absolutely have to,
most of the stuff is already in Debian. StarOffice is not, there is
OpenOffice.org though.



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