7 Mar
2011
7 Mar
'11
3:18 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:49 AM, David Hare <davidahare(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Trinity is not supported by Debian mainstream at all
(yet).
Probably most distros won't until the bugtracker is cleared (mostly)
and rebranding is completed.
Never tried LMDE but from what I read the main
attraction is the Mint menu
(think it's Gnome) the rest is Debian Testing with some non-free and and
modifications. So if you want Trinity rather than Gnome why not start with
straight Debian?
Some people like to contribute through testing or to see what's on the way.
The only live/installable builds I see for Trinity are
kubuntu.
As far as I know only myself has been doing live builds for Debian
(exelinux_squeeze_trinity)
Why only Kubuntu? There are people for which the *buntu's have never
worked, myself included.
I can confirm that Trinity runs on todays Debian
Testing, I did a live build
this morning but so far only tested in a VM
As far as I can see there is nothing to stop a user from dist-upgrading
Squeeze/Trinity to Wheezy (or Sid) at the moment, just don't do it in X. Or
installing Trinity on a Wheezy base. That could change at any time though
and it might be difficult or impossible to downgrade.
I'm sure a very experienced user could downgrade their system -- back
in 2008 I managed to downgrade a fully up-to-date system by two years
worth of software. Of course that's not going into 2.4 kernels, that's
still 2.6.
I think, if we support a Debian build of TDE, that we should do it as
cmake completes. I don't use Debian except as a backup partition due
to a very buggy user interface (even when they supported KDE3), so I
wouldn't be able to test.
--
Kris
"Piki"
Ark Linux Webmaster
Trinity Desktop Environment Packager