Hello,
atm im running fedora and its working quite well. the problem is that i will need to reinstall it at least once a year. so im looking for a distro that i can keep installed for a long period of time.
I dont like the human theme from ubuntu plus the support cycle is still quite short.
I decided to try out debian lenny in a virtual machine.
I have a few questions and problems.
I downloaded opera .deb file from opera.com i right clicked it and opened with another application and choose the gdeb package installer (think thats what its called. prompted for password etc and installed.
I right clicked the file again and selected the gdeb package installer, a window popped up and told me what was going to be installed. I clicked on install and typed in my password.
i went to applications,internet and it wasnt there. so i added the deskbar applet to the top bar and searched opera and found it. so its installed but didnt add itself to the applications menu.
what did i do wrong?
Other than howtoforge is there anyother decent guides to setting up debian as a desktop system with codec support (including dvd) as well as java,proper nvidia drivers,compiz fusion etc?
Can I mix standard debian stable packages and more unstable packages?
Lenny has gnome 2.22 i would like to use gnome 2.24 is this easy to do?
once alsa supports creative x-fi i would like to upgrade to that version of alsa is that easy to do?


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