Re: I would like to give my congradulation

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:43:53AM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote:
Greetings all

I just made the move from SuSE 10.3 to Debian Etch.

When I updated from SuSE 10.0 to 10.3 I found myself
disgusted at how unpolished and rough it was. Things
that worked before didn't after the update. XMMS was
gone, I couldn't play MP3's, the online update feature

I think xmms is no more anyway.

was broken, and even Audacity (an audio editor) appears
to have been setup so it wouldn't read in MP3 files.
(This is how I convert the MP3 files I get a hold of to OGG's.)

Also stock Debian. You have to get "lame" from
http://www.debian-multimedia.org

Debian Etch is by far better polished than SuSE 10.3.
And as I have tried out previous Debian versions I must
say that Etch is the best version of Debian yet. Even
with the apparent license paranoia over the Acrobat
reader and Firefox. (Both Free mind you) Although,
there might be more to this than I am aware of.

There is. See the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (DFSG)
I'd say a search on google for something like "Why isn't firefox in
Debian" should, hopefully, provide a reasonable answer.

(One request though. I prefer KDE and it would be nice
to have the option of which GUI I would like to use,
as it took a bit of hoop jumping to get the system
loaded with KDE.)

Overall -- Great job Debian Developers!!!!!!!!!
Keep it going

Walt
in Boulder, Colorado

(I wouldn't mind joining the effort once I get through
a few more of my comp science classes.)

Have a look through.
http://www.debian.org/devel/

--
Chris.
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