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First a reminder about the Linux library -
it is in a green Rubbermaid container in the back of the computer room.
Feel free to check out anything inside -
just sign it out with your BECS membership number
and bring it back.
It contains lots of magazines about Linux and
even two full packaged Linux distributions!
Second, I continue to be impressed by the
Debian Linux distribution - read about it at
www.debian.org.
They actually have four distributions:
stable, testing, unstable and experimental.
Their distributions also are named after Toy Story characters.
Currently, stable is potato, testing is woody and unstable is sid.
They are about to retire potato and make woody their stable distribution.
Potato has not been changed in about a year and is getting a bit dated.
Most Debian users are using woody or sid.
For instance, potato has X-windows version 3.3.6 and woody has 4.1.0.
There is not anything wrong with 3.3.6, but with 4.1.0,
my mouse wheel works and I like that better.
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But the main reason that I upgraded to woody is that woody includes KDE2,
whereas potato had a minimal window manager called twm.
KDE is overwhelmingly better than twm.
Woody also had cdrecord and xcdroast and
I have used these programs to burn some net install CDs of Debian woody.
These are available for free on the computer room free counter.
The woody net install CD images are updated almost every week.
While the Debian distributions themselves are available
for IBM pc compatibles, m68xxx, power-pc, alpha and mips,
the net install versions are only available for
pc compatibles and power-pc.
We will be covering the net install process in
upcoming Linux SIG meetings and newsletter articles.
For now, let me give you some screenshots of
Debian Linux with KDE2
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