Back Again

Silly me, what was I thinking? Debian, for my desktop? Hah!

To be fair, Debian’s ok. Small quick package manager even if being binary restricts your options a little. That’s not that drove me from it. I just can’t figure out Debian’s policy on packaging software. My examples include sun-jdk, mplayer, nvidia-kernel, flash and doom3. Which of the above would you think would be packaged? The GPLd media player? The binary kernel module? The binary game? The binary flash plugin?

Well, for some political reason mplayer is out. So is doom3 (and related). Java too. This does irritate me somewhat, but here’s the real crunch. A binary kernel module is ok! So is a non-free flash player! Double ewe tee eff I say!

Apparently some Debian release thing happened today, I read the release notes and saw non-current packages right after the words “up to date”.

Debian on a desktop? Yeah right!