Debian Forever
Last week sometime I was trying to fix my monitor issue with Kubuntu, and X11 stopped working. This was not too big of a surprise as that is what I was hacking on, but from that point on I was unable to get X to start. #^$% it, thought I, and install Debian Sarge:
- Bluetooth worked fine, I just had to install a non-free package. ☹
- The older version of KDE has a different icon for Dvorak and US keyboard. Yea!
- I’m no longer loose the bottom centimeter of the screen.
- My digital camera worked out of the box with Debian KDE’s Kamera.
Downsides include:
- No cute KDE GUI for Bluetooth.
- Needed to boot Debians kernel with
acpi=off, thoughtapmseems to work.
I’m just wonder if my Kubunu problem will return when Debian Etch gets released.
Today, I read that the issues that put me over the top might of not been my fault. I always did upgrades as soon as I noticed them, and I remember playing with the packages before I started playing with the X11 settings. While the upgrade issue has been fixed this problem happened just about at the peek of my frustration. A few years ago Debian has a similar issue that made the system unbootable, so I can’t single out Ubuntu for this mistake.
So much for my soirée with Kubuntu.
