Re: [LUG] Desktop trauma-sorted (for now)

[Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:59:04AM +0000, George Parker wrote:
<snip>
> Debian works well but the stable release, Squeeze, still has a rough
> around the edges feel.  The Mint Debian, although a rolling release
> is a better experience for me.  (Very subjective this)  I'm not a
> purist and I find the lack of non free stuff without hunting around,
> in Squeeze, very annoying.

1)  Try Debian testing

    If you run Debian Testing, there can be quite a few updates. I find
    "cron-apt" very helpful

2)  Add "contrib and non-free" to /etc/apt/sources.list

    My sources.list

    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
    deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
    deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

    (I had a problem one day and had to use a US source to get the updates)
    
    Also see http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing

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