Warning: ficto-criticism alert.
Tried Ubuntu after some bad times with Redhat going the unstable
Fedora route after switching back to Slackware, first
used on a command line in days one couldn't figure a use for
MS Win 3.1 on a Tosbiba 3400 notebook, only to find spending
days and weeks trying to get rid of the strange bug-like things
in the latest Slackware (still can't figure out if I was hallucinating
when user id defaulted to 0) so what else to do but erase hard drive,
partition and install the latest stable version of Debian 3.1.
Two DVDs or 13 CDs of software. It took a week just to read the
glowing blurbs. As for up to date documentation... had
better get use to reading configuration shell scripts. Ubuntu based
on the unstable and testing trees of Debian source and get
to know why unstable and testing and need broadband internet to
download extra applications. Ubuntu didn't have essentials like
LaTex and Lyx, in testing but then only had one CD and couldn't
find emacs not that I looked that hard. At least nano is a
little more friendly then those vi things you need to edit config
scripts.
With the stable Debian still getting X server freezes... at first
thought it may have been security logs accessing the same vt as
X server so fixed this problem but still X server kept
freezing. So back to 800x600 screen at 75 Hz, below video
card and monitor capabilities, suspecting S3 virge driver is
unstable at higher resolutions although it should be stable at 85Hz
only tested Debian at 800x600 at 85Hz and for this it was rock
solid and reconfiguring the X server for higher resolutions
after mission critical install, so what else could it be?
Been reading documentation for a month trying to find reason for
this unstable X server and many another thing. (Built computer
hardware from individual components explicitly to run unix-like
system, but the bios warnings about settings needed for SCO unix
seem somewhat obsolete.) And then there was modem... nothing too
difficult really for an ISA Cirrus Logic V34 internal modem and no it is
not a Winmodem! a hardware modem... fear I have begun arguing with those
howto writers who seem to think internal modems are software modems
and no I am not going to buy an external hardware modem just because
finding a serial port for an internal ISA modem is considered just
too difficult when all one need do is:
pnpdump -c --outputfile=/etc/isapnp.conf
setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 4 port 0x3E8 autoconfig
and put this in wherever it maybe that Debian thinks would do for what
passes as /etc/serial. Did find where this was, BTW, but forget
where.
Hate the techno-capitalist system church of Deleuze
thinking pure immanence only to itself in a bubble of pure
transcendence singing the song of a new colonialist techno-
capitalist earth.
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