installed Lenny and like it

[wolfen69]

i have used debian before and am familiar with its sometimes not so friendly ways, but never decided to go with it full time. i always had problems getting my tv tuner card working and always gave up. (tv on my pc is important to me) but after some serious googling and perseverance, i finally got it going.

after setting it up exactly the way i had ubuntu, i have to admit i don't notice much of a difference from ubuntu, except for the fact it uses less memory. but it seems very stable and i'll probably stick with it for now. all in all, i'm happy with it.

[markharding557]

I have never found any major differences either which is not suprising since ubuntu is really a heavily customised debian snapshot.
good luck

[Antman]

after setting it up exactly the way i had ubuntu, i have to admit i don't notice much of a difference from ubuntu, except for the fact it uses less memory.

I installed Lenny on my laptop and intended to use it full time. It's gnome setup used about 100mb less ram than ubuntu's default setup... but... as I was trying to setup my ati drivers, I suffered a hard freeze and had to shut down the pc via the power button. After that I reloaded hardy on my laptop and all is right with the world. :guitar:

Edit: moved my systems to Slackware

[oOarthurOo]

I was never able to get my ubuntu install under about 790 packages. I'm running Lenny right now with only 680. So... I'm able to reproduce an indentically functioning desktop in about 110 less packages. I think I've tweaked things a little more this time around but I'm also running about 40MBs lighter.

Getting it up and running the way I like took a lot longer than it did with Ubuntu. Everything has a price I guess.

[nvteighen]

Debian Lenny is really good. I installed it after having a bad experience with Ubuntu 8.10 and well, I don't regret it. Of course, Debian is not the best for a GNU/Linux-beginner, as you need to customize it to get it working like you want, but it's really a much more stable system than Ubuntu.

[basenvironment]

... as you need to customize it to get it working like you want
only if you want it to work differently than how it works by default...and that is true of every single linux distro...

[cmay]

i been using lenny for sometime but as i am started to beta test jaunty on that old computer i have had to uninstall lenny. lenny is really stable and i do not customize very much . it works right out of the box for me so no need to do that much. i only edit the apt sources and add a few lines to the basrch. i cant wait to get lenny released as stable.

[czechman86]

Im glad that you like Lenny and got things to work well with it. I have jumped around between Ubuntu and Arch for some time now, but a friend of mine told me to go with Debian and I haven't switched back. To me, Debian is a nice middle ground between Ubuntu and Arch. I can build it from the bottom up, but I do not need to do any of the under the hood configurations, as with Arch. I am also able to use tools such as Synaptic, and am not subject to what I feel is over bloating of the Ubuntu desktop. My opinions, but over all, Debian rocks!

[wolfen69]

i cant wait to get lenny released as stable.

if you ask me, it is very stable already. i have not had one hitch or glitch whatsoever. runs perfect.