| Apt-get remove SUSE; apt-get install Etch |
May 25, 2007
Ever since comparing seven Linux distributions on his "old thinkpad" testbed, DesktopLinux.com's executive editor remained impressed with the flexibility and ease-of-maintenance of Debian-based Linuxes. Then, after writing about using Etch as a desktop OS, he began considering migrating his primary desktop from SUSE to Debian. Now, he's done it.
"I run an rsync-based script frequently, to back up my /home/ directory to a Debian-powered fileserver located on my home network," Rick Lehrbaum writes. "So naturally, before blowing away my SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux Desktop 10-based desktop Linux system and installing Debian on it, I ran my backup script one last time, to ensure that I had a mirror image of my /home/ directory on the server in case anything went awry."
"Next, I went went to Debian.org's CD image download area to grab an ISO from which to start my upgrade."
Which ISO to use? Lehrbaum decided to try to build up a full-function, multimedia-enabled, KDE-based Debian system beginning from the Debian 4.0 (Etch) network-install CD. "Yes, I realize that there is an available KDE-based CD -- but I checked that one out and really didn't care for the strange and somewhat random selection of applications that were included on it," he writes. "So, I decided to make this more of a DIY project."
"I therefore downloaded this 159 MB file (direct link to download), and burned it onto a CD using K3b on my SUSE 10 desktop."
Read Lehrbaum's detailed account of what happened next here:
Apt-get remove SUSE; apt-get install Etch
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