Re: [orca-list] Debian 8 'Jessie' released

[Mike Ray <mike raspberryvi org>]

Alex,

Not used Debian on a UEFI machine but in the release notes for Jessie is
stuff about improved UEFI performance.

sudo is installed out-of-the-box.

Mate is very accessible.  For some odd reason there are three terminals
installed; mate-terminal, uxterm and xterm.  Out of these only
mate-terminal is accessible.

Anjuta is still very, very patchy (Alex I read something from you from
some time ago about Anjuta) but I'm talking to the sole dev of Anjuta
who is in maintenance mode at the mo.

Mike


On 26/04/2015 19:18, Alex Midence wrote:
> Did any of you try it with apc that uses uefi? If so, how did it go? This is what stopped me from 
> installing Debian at home and what ended up pushing me towards Ubuntu.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 26, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Mike Ray <mike raspberryvi org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > David has said it all.  The net install is my preferred method and it is
> > totally accessible to someone who can see absolutely nothing, like me.
> >
> > One step which may trip up the unsuspecting or inexperienced is the
> > selection of packages at the end.
> >
> > You are given a list of what to install and asked to make a selection.
> > Your selection needs to be a space-separated list.  To get the Mate
> > desktop the selection line would look like this:
> >
> > 1 6 9 10 11
> >
> > 1 is for any desktop at all, 6 for Mate, 9 for a printer server, 10 for
> > the SSH server and 11 for general utilities.
> >
> > There are also numbered choices for web server (Apache) and database
> > server (Mariadb).
> >
> > If you omit 1 or one of the specific desktop flavours you won't get a GUI.
> >
> > I'm too biased to answer questions about what distro is better,
> > particularly where the question includes the word 'Ubuntu', because I'm
> > a stolid and staunch supporter of Debian.  I think a lot of Debian
> > derivatives are irrelevant.  And I don't like the way Ubuntu tries to
> > hold my hand too much and hide from me stuff it thinks I won't
> > understand.  Had enough of that with Windows.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > > On 26/04/2015 16:18, Dave Hunt wrote:
> > > Since you've done this sort of thing before, it should not present too
> > > much difficulty, even though the installer is not a gui program.  I
> > > think you'll appreciate the fact that you don't end up with extra apps
> > > you can't or won't use.  Remember that your Mozilla browser is called
> > > iceweasel, and the thing you know as Thunderbird is called Icedove, and
> > > will have to be added post-install.  If you like seamonkey, try Iceape.
> > > If you like console email agents, I think mutt is part of the default
> > > setup.
> > >
> > >
> > > Good Luck,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On 04/26/2015 11:12 AM, Majid Hussain wrote:
> > > > thanks for the swift responce dave!
> > > > going to try this out,
> > >
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> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Michael A. Ray
> > Analyst/Programmer
> > Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
> >
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Michael A. Ray
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