Debian: The Lenny Diary

This is my set of notes I jotted down while I was playing with Debian Lenny. Not formatted, and often vague, but it will do. I am posting it here to just show how good/bad lenny experience can be to someone.

# This installer is too damn easy to use. Its fun. W00t! install completed.

# GRUB looks better than in ubuntu. WTH is this only 5 seconds wait time ?

# WTH ? Login in text mode ? K no problem.

# Guess KDE is not installed

# sudo apt-get install KDE

# sudo command not found

# hehehe even sudo is not installed by default

# time to leave

# hard reboot via restart button

# lets try single user mode

# WTH ? I forgot my password

# Whoops. I guess I didn’t forget the password after all. It was just slightly lengthened.

# apt-get install sudo

# that’s better

# apt-get install kde

# insert CD ?

# OK fine. here you go

# inserted CD

# darn, I think the net is too slow

# 15kbps download speed for 2280kb

# rest from CD

# this install is boring

# let me play guitar a bit

# w00t! install finished

# exit

# yay! KDM!

# omgwtf ? kstartupconfig not installed it says when I log in

# time to go back to root mode

# apt-get install kstartupconfig

# package does not exist

# damn you

# time to go to sleep. will worry later

# so it turns out I don’t have permission to view my own home folder

# reboot, go to windows mode, safe mode with networking

# find out the darn command for loading the list

# #think-digit @ chat.freenode.net

# QwertyM: I don’t help distro hoppers and windows users unless I am bored

# Me: screw you

# aditya|movies: chown gautham /home/gautham -R

# aditya|movies: chgrp users /home/gautham -R

# Me: Thanks bro

# reboot

# yup problem fixed

# time to configure debian

# wait a sec, damn I lack sudo privilage

# restart

# google

# visudo was the command this time

# found I need to add gautham ALL = (ALL)ALL after a line root ALL = ALL(ALL)

# ctrl+X to exit, Y to save

# confirm my findings

# go to #think-digit again

# aditya|movies: useradd -G root gautham

# me: you sure ? here is mine…

# aditya|movies: whats visudo ?

# me: guess I shall try both in that case

# wow, editing worked

# damn aditya’s methord said user already exists

# exit

# haha I am a sudoer now

# time to really mess with debian now

# configuring is fun

# I R 1337 themer

# lemme make my own theme, because default configuration sucks

# purple is good

# wait a sec, net was slow because debian uses BSNL DNS by default. my mistake.

# OpenDNS FTW !

# Time to try out more stuff

# I don’t have a proper sources.list file

# can someone get me a good one ?

# infinitely long search in the net

# cool. IIT Madras server’s apt lines

# Wow! The connection is super fast

# Debian Multimedia rocks

# Something feels wrong about debian

# Fonts are ugly

# Found a better fonts.conf file

# Fonts look great and smooth now

# Still me not satisfied

# Many things not functioning as I expect them to

# I think I must leave Lenny

# Lenny is going to be frozen in a month or two and made stable

# Darn, this means no more updated packages

# Time to say Good Bye, Mr. Lenny

# What distro should I use ?

# Sid ? Sid ? Sid ?

# Its too unstable

# Thats it! Sidux is the answer

# I forgot that sidux has features for stability

# Sidux ensures that unstable packages don’t make it

# Downloading Sidux

# Burning stuff to free disc space

# Downloaded and Burnt Sidux

# So I guess this is it then… Good Bye Lenny – Forever.

So thats it. There goes the story of my extremely short life with Debian Lenny, lasting barely a couple of days. Its excellent, but still lacking in something. I just had to leave it. There was no other way. I am going to install Sidux now. Time to see how good Sid’s stable son will be.