SuSE and regrades, RPG Reviews, Weirdness by News

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Last Tuesday visited the Melbourne Novell Users Group meeting with imajica_lj which had an interesting "where we are going" news section from Craig Wiley, which was quite pro-opensource, a big change for Novell. The following day however was an ironic decision. Despite being quite fond of OpenSuSE, my desktop machine just ain't up to the hardware requirements. So after careful consideration I've embarked on a radical downgraderegrade of my software to... Red Hat 8.0Debian Sarge. Some might think I'm crazy but it actually suits my needs and the hardware in question.

In RPG news caseopaya ran "Little Fears" on Friday. On Saturday we had a delightful visit from the soon-to-be-wed ser_pounce and wolf_in_winter and played the hilarious Munchkin. Sunday was the Norman Britain AD&D game where the noble venturers sought out the final base of the slavers at the Balaeric Isles (or, in gaming terms), managed to get 2/3rd of the way through module A3. Review-wise on RPG.net I've added Slave Pits of the Undercity, The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, Glorantha's Elder Secrets, Megatraveller's Imperial Encyclopedia.

Mixed weirdness. A parrot names N'kisi has a vocabulary of 950 words, correct grammatical structure and a sense of humour, via p_cat. Parroting to his master, Prime Minister JoHo lands in hot water over saying a vote for Barak Obama was, effectively, supporting terrorism. Via trayce with my letter to The Age on the matter. A DNA swab on Pauline Hanson reveals a good third of her genes is mid-eastern and medittereanean. She mentions eras of "rape and pillage" in response. Seriously fubar; A cop ejaculates over a motorist and walks.

Comments

I've embarked on a radical downgrade of my software to... Red Hat 8.0.

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

Dude wtf ... just install debian.

Re: I've embarked on a radical downgrade of my software to... Red Hat 8.0.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

If I had a copy of the distro I probably would give another go.

Re: I've embarked on a radical downgrade of my software to... Red Hat 8.0.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

See modified entry, I've found my copy of Sarge...

Now to wait for the security updates to download....

Re: I've embarked on a radical downgrade of my software to... Red Hat 8.0.

[zey.livejournal.com]

I'd actually suggest updating to Etch (Testing) for a desktop box. X.org blows XFree86 out of the water.

Just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list, do a quick s/sarge/etch/, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, and it'll update you fairly painlessly. (Try doing that sort of thing with a lot of other distros and you'd be stuck; one of the main reasons Debian rocks in server space.)

Re: I've embarked on a radical downgrade of my software to... Red Hat 8.0.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Baby steps pls.. The last time I worked with Debian (apart from its famous child Ubuntu) was in Timor Leste (and I quickly bailed on it at that point).

Re: I've embarked on a radical downgrade of my software to... Red Hat 8.0.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

X.org would blow Xfree86 out of the water if it weren't for the regressions that have been unfixed in the debian BTS (and submitted upstream) for at least 18 months. Sucks to not be able to suspend to RAM using the bios APM anymore. Sucks to ignore provided modelines and not be able to display at higher resolution and differing frequencies than the 60Hz internal LCD, on the external unrelated VGA-out anymore.

Bah. But at long as it is Shiny! and can do wobbly transparent things.