Debian+Gnome for my desktop
Monday, 28. November 2005, 21:27:00
I am on my way to be Windows-free. I recently installed Debian Sarge on my box at home (with no Windows at all) and dual booting with Windows at work.
I have had several experiences with Linux since 1999, but now I'm decided to keep it as my main desktop. I have tried before with Mandrake (now Mandriva), Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu, but Debian is the best for me. As for the desktop, I used to prefer KDE, but Gnome is better integrated into the system, and is much more mature right now than it was a few years ago.
The only thing I need and I don't have is Dreamweaver or something alike. I spend much of my time developing LAMP applications and Dreamweaver is the best development environment I've ever seen. And I just use the Code View, I never program visually.
I have had several experiences with Linux since 1999, but now I'm decided to keep it as my main desktop. I have tried before with Mandrake (now Mandriva), Redhat, Suse and Ubuntu, but Debian is the best for me. As for the desktop, I used to prefer KDE, but Gnome is better integrated into the system, and is much more mature right now than it was a few years ago.
The only thing I need and I don't have is Dreamweaver or something alike. I spend much of my time developing LAMP applications and Dreamweaver is the best development environment I've ever seen. And I just use the Code View, I never program visually.
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franzzz # 28. November 2005, 21:43
stevenmansour # 28. November 2005, 23:37
I have a dual-boot Ubuntu / Windows desktop at home, which is in Ubuntu most of the time. The exception is for playing online games - or "research" as I like to call it. My main machine (an Apple Powerbook laptop) also has Ubuntu on it, but the lack of proper network drivers yet mean I'm almost always still in Mac OS X, which is fine with me, since I can run all of my Linux apps in OSX anyways.
I'm partial to FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Gentoo and SuSE for different reasons, although Debian is of course closely related to Ubuntu. What reasons made you choose Debian?
I prefer Gnome too and agree with you about the integration - these days, whenever I use KDE it feels more like an artificial layer on top of the OS than actual integration. Just a personal preference, really.
As for your LAMP development, have you tried gphpedit? It lack the WYSIWYG visual part, but you don't use that anyway.
Right about now, I'm extremely jealous of your little weather display icon that shows 30 degrees. I have the same widget on my desktop; it's displaying -5 right now.
Steven Mansour
gnapse # 29. November 2005, 02:36
The other thing I like about debian, is that I already have the DVDs, so I got there almost everything that I would dream of. In ubuntu is a single CD and the rest must be updated from the internet, throught synaptic or apt-get directly. But I dond't have broadband, and is preferable to download or obtain from friends the CDs or DVDs and then you got it all. If you have internet (at work, for instance) you can download minor security upgrades. But after installing ubuntu, I wanted anjuta, and some other packages, and I couldn't afford to download them from the web. I was surprised that ubuntu, coming from an underdeveloped country (south africa) doesn't give the opportunity to download CD #2, CD #3, etc. I also had problems using jigdo to download ubuntu iso images, but I was able to download the two sarge DVDs with jigdo (during several days, almost two weeks, at work).
I tried gphpedit, but it had a single flaw: I type <html> and when typing the right angle bracket IP expected him to complete me with the </html> closing tag, but he didn't.
As for the temperature, is just lovely. The problem is in summer, when you have 20 or 25, and I have a 35 (HOT!!!).
Anonymous # 29. November 2005, 04:57
You're the first Cuban blogger (in Cuba) I've found. Are there others you can point to?
gnapse # 30. November 2005, 04:42
Well, it seems that one of the main attractions or interest shown by visitors of this blog is related to the fact of me being from Cuba and actually blogging from Cuba. Is perfectly understandable. But I'm more interested in what people think about the blog itself, judging it by its contents. Thanks anyway for you comments.