Wednesday·19·March·2008
The days of my last running Woody are numbered… //at 21:29 //by abe
As many of the Planet Debian readers know, I bemoan Galeon 1.2 and therefore Woody. For a long time I haven’t found an appropriate browser replacement for Galeon 1.2 in Sarge, so I never switched my home workstation called “gsa” (Pentium II, 400 MHz, 572 MB RAM) to Sarge, since Woody was rockstable and just worked.
Though, after a few Galeon 1.3/2.0 rants, someone pointed me to Kazehakase, which indeed is a fine Galeon 1.2 replacement. But I noticed that Kazehakase in Sarge was in an early stage and the Kazehakase from testing (now Etch) were already much more matured.
So in comparison to Sarge with Etch I won’t have the problem of not having a mature and sage web browser in main. And due to security support for Woody ceased a few months ago and Etch is now declared stable, it’s time to reinstall my last Woody box with Etch.
For that, a repartioning of it’s two hard disks (8 GB and 40 GB) sounds like a good idea and so I had look, what’s on all those partitions where I once had a shot on quite a few Linux distributions and other unix-like operating systems. (Although I was already a big fan of Debian at that time, I wanted to look over my own nose and ordered a few CDs of free operating system at LinISO.de.)
So here’s what I found, never really used and will throw away quite soon:
- RedHat 9
- Mandrake 9.2beta2
- FreeBSD 4.8
- OpenBSD 3.3
- one more, not yet identified (or perhaps even never formatted) Linux partition
That should give enough space for an Etch installation without touching the Woody installation first. Thanks to Venty, I’ve got a DVD drive for that box, so I can install from DVD.
And for toying around with all those other neat and free operating
systems nowadays, I’ve got my MicroClient
Jr. named “c2”.
Tagged as: c2, Etch, FreeBSD, Galeon, gsa, Kazehakase, Mandrake, MicroClient, MicroClient Jr., Norhtec, OpenBSD, Pentium II, Planet Debian, RedHat, Sarge, Ventilator, Woody
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