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thk thk Κυρ. 31 Αυγ. 2008 6:53 0 views
Linux Mint is nice but unfortunately not so fast or stable. Sorry , it might be something I ve done , maybe wine that hit (wine server ) 100% cpu , but then again..
A linux fan searches for excuses like these.. So.. Movin again.
It's got to be debian based , and xfce. Installed dreamlinux but hated the MACish look that could not change, the hidden xfce settings..
So I said to try for the first time in my life debian on desktop. Pure debian .No ubuntu,mint,dreamlinux,sidux.
Downloaded Debian lenny beta 2 xfce.
1. I had tried to install Sidux Ερεβος but gave me blank screen with out of sync rate.Same problem in Lenny (sidux , dreamlinux are lenny based and yes I like motorhead too). The trick i tried? I installed nvidia driver from command line but first I had to change kernel because I could not find source for 2.6.24. So I installed the latest available kernel 2.6.26 and it's headers and it's source  from apt-get.
The trick with nvidia driver worked.
2. No flash in iceweasel. Copy paste the flash plugin file in plugins had iceweasel crashed. Totally removed Iceweasel (some time after the point it seemed useless to trying installing pure firefox) and installed latest firefox from file.I missed the red fox logos. So to install pure firefox in debian lenny competely remove iceweasel, download latest firefox tar.gz and extract somewhere in your filesystem. I personally extracted it in /usr/local/bin as firefox301. Then i linked it like that :
ln -s /usr/local/bin/firefox301/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox .

3. Tried (too much hour) to install adesklets. There is not a live forum and the deb installation crashed on debian lenny beta 2 becase it could not find fonts. Ended up trying to compile adesklets but I had stuck with an error that said adesklets was not configured for using X and in the end something trippy  like that:
For this to work you do need first to configure your Imlib2 incantation for not using X Window itself.
I discovered the --without-fontconfig directive and used it for the fontconfig problem because after one successful compile I saw debugger and last fontconfig crashing.
Anyway for the missing X support even if I installed a million X * dev packages it kept on appearing.
I finally ended up reading the configure script and discovered somewhere in line 7130 this check:
if test -r $ac_dir/libXt.$ac_extension; then
So I searched on synaptic and installed libxt-dev.
Then I compiled normally just plain configure without --without-fontconfig flag but it crashed .
So the most recent build is with ./configure --without-fontconfig