Wednesday, August 29, 2007

First few dates with Lenny!!!




Ok, let me answer your first and most demanding question - Who (the hell) is Lenny?. To start with Lenny is not a girl!!!. Lenny is the name given to the Debian testing distro (Sid is another name for Lenny). Penny helped me to get the system up and running with latest debian distro. It was her suggestion to install Lenny. It seems pretty cool. I'm still trying to get hold with the different way of doing things in Debian. I'm now pretty much ok with apt commands. But I am quite struggling with the commandline editing tools as keys act little different from that of Fedora.
Anyway it seems really wonderful experience to work with it. First of all it identified my ADSL modem in the first place and then installed almost all the drivers I need to run the system. Then I had this little problem with getting apt-get working. Luckily for me Penny was there to help. Then I started working on the graphics which was not identified correctly by Lenny. I was able to fix it with little googling on ATI graphics and debian. Then with the help of Penny and some other blogs and forums I was able to install gnome windows manager. That is about it for the moment and I hope to write more about my Debian experience in coming days...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Good one.

I'm also using Debian, but Etch. ATI is yet to open the source for their drivers. So I had quite a fun time with my Notebook with Mobility Radeon X1600 on Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu. I have the full article here
http://gaveen.blogspot.com/2007/07/running-debian-etch-on-my-noebook-with.html

Hope ATI will play the good guy sooner rather than later.