Sometimes I wonder why I bother playing around, as I just go back to the old standard, for the most part. Okay, that’s not really true. I’ve installed the network install version of Debian 4.0R1 (Etch). I also don’t know why I did it this way, as I just downloaded a few metapackages and ended up with a reasonably full system anyways. Interestingly, there is no GUI instant messenger client installed, though. When I searched for it (looking first for Pidgen, as the “Desktop” metapackage installed Gnome), I found Gaim, which has since been renamed to get AOL off their backs.
I guess that this isn’t that important, as I’ll probably hose this install anyways when my 80G drive arrives. I thought that I’d see what was up with the “base” for alll those popular distros out there, since I hadn’t kept up with it for quite some time. I do notice one thing so far that I really don’t like and that’s the fonts in Epiphany, the Gnome browser. They’re terrible. Maybe it’ll be back to Ubuntu again after all.
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