Joe versus the Potato

By Joe Barr, LinuxWorld.com | Software Add a new comment

March 20, 2001, 4:02 PM —

I am writing this column using gEdit, on a Helix GNOME desktop. I installed Helix GNOME yesterday by typing apt-get install task-helix-gnome. Yes, my dw33bs, I am l33t. Ph34r my sk1llz! We are talking Potato -- potato soup, that is. It is done, installed. Behold, I run Debian 2.2.

My column from a few weeks ago, which concluded that the Debian install sucked, was based on an old release of Debian (Slink Point Five) that I picked up at the LinuxWorld Expo. So I promised to take another look at the Debian install using the latest version (Debian 2.2, the Joel "Espy" Klecker Release -- aka Potato).

It took longer than I planned to keep that promise. There seems to be
some sort of conspiracy involving me and official Debian releases on CD. LinuxMall has had me backordered for two weeks now. A Debian user burned me a set and sent it via snail mail, but after more than a week, it has still not arrived.

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