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on Saturday October 25 2014, @02:41PM
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.
A grave bug has been introduced into the "wine" package of Debian Jessie, just days before the November 5th freeze deadline. The /usr/bin/wine launch script fails with an "error: unable to find wine executable. this shouldn't happen." message.
Debian has already suffered much unrest lately over the inclusion of systemd, with threats of a fork being issued, along with the possible cancellation of the GNU/kFreeBSD port and the possible dropping of support for the SPARC architecture. After so much strife and disruption, can Debian afford to have such a serious bug affect such a critical package so soon before such a major freeze?
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Wine Fails to Launch under Debian Jessie, Just Days before the Freeze Deadline
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(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Sunday October 26 2014, @11:40AM
Nice troll. If you'd bothered trying anything other than Debian, you'd realize that your comments are full of either gross ignorance or flaming BS — on par with the people that buy into the "omg all distros excpect 'buntu force you to use the terminal for liek everything and are liek for expert super-geeks only!" crap. I'd certainly say it's foolish to the extreme to abandon Linux because the distro you're used to isn't up to par anymore; I'm considering PC-BSD, but it's as a last resort.
One option is Void Linux, which is another foundation distro (not based on any others). It reportedly allows users to stick with binary repos if they wish, usual choice of desktop environments, choice of inits, and I don't know much else. Looks pretty standard, but I haven't tried it yet (just downloaded it).
I jumped from Debian to OpenSUSE after a brief battle with Jessie. If it wasn't for the mild differences between YaST/zypper and Synaptic/apt, and a slight difference in how dependencies are handled, I wouldn't actually know which was which. Otherwise, it's easier in OpenSUSE: it hosts repos for users that want to build packages & has a master search to cover all of them (so I'm not stuck choosing only between official repos & well-publicized alternates), and when a package is installed from an alternate repo, YaST/zypper asks if I want to add it to my list of places to grab updates.
I gave Slackware a try for the first time recently. The only thing that seemed even remotely outdated was that it uses a text installer that lets the user make major decisions rather than forcing everything on us. It lets users rely entirely on binary repos if they choose, and offers the same desktop environments but they run faster & more reliably than I'd seen in Debian lately.
I haven't tried Gentoo, but it comes across as professional, just not overly commercial. I'm not interested in building from source, but I doubt I'd run my electricity bill up given my laptop's on and *if* it's active enough to give off much heat, that would just mean not having to use a space heater as often. No biggie.
As I've said to many Ubuntu users that haven't dared try anything else in recent years (if at all): give current releases of the other distros a try with an open mind rather than assuming that what you're used to is automatically 'better,' and you might be very surprised at what you find. I'm hoping that Debian will find its way back to the proverbial light, because so many great distros (like SimplyMEPIS and MX-14) have been based on it, but I'm sure as hell not giving up on Linux purely because some (or even most) Debian devs have rectal-cranial inversion disorder at the moment...