hmmm after some time… back to my blog! 
this time i have something really refreshing and fun to rant about… i am a long term ubuntu user.. and btw ubuntu is a grate distro, there is no argument about that(i don’t have one… i mean heck… its a really nice distro.. specially if you are lazy 
) but i have been experiencing some annoyances with it…
mainly my sound was crashing at random times… like sometimes it works till 2 hours pass ans suddenly… something crashes or messes up… and then the sound it iterating between two points(like if it got stuck when someone was saying “hello!”, i will be hearing hello hello hello…. all the time, until i restart the lap). this was bearable… i mean i was staying with this from the time of ubuntu edgy to ubuntu feisty and finally till gusty came out… i was expecting this will be fixed(i guess this is something with my kernel… some kernel module most probably… this was this issue that i could zero in on.. after all the efforts i have put to it…).
i experienced a huge speed boost after the kernel upgrade(completely fair scheduling…) so actually i was really happy with my ubuntu system until i upgraded to gusty and found out that the sound problem is still there! and its not only that… it have got worse… now it is crashing more often and i really really can’t live with this annoyance… so i backed up my data and did a clean installation of gusty in my lap… still no changes… damn… this sucks….
So i wanted to try something new… well yeah debain is hardly something new for me cause after all ubuntu is based on debian. and i have used debain sometime back… it was one of the first ever distros that i have installed by my self… when i first discovered linux…. in those days there were no “easy to use” ubunut isos around 
debian is pretty popular for been a stable os(linux is in general very stable relative to windows and debain is much more solid… hence it is really popular with sys admins… i guess) . and debain was supposed to be simple… and more ‘raw’(in sense that it had less uneeded stuff and was very simple and basic… so that i can really decide what kind of system i want to get installed in my lap). so i downloaded a debain net installer iso. and booted up my lap. but the first time it didn’t just boot up… it got stuck or something… generally linux kernels hang when i boot them in my lap with pcmcia support… so i turned it off and switched to a much safer video mode. then debain booted up to the setup(wich was really fast!!!). and then i just installed a standard sys + laptop support + desktop env(which was gnome by defult.. which i am used to btw(well i was using ubuntu for nearly two years!))…
the installation took about 4 hours i guess… i had a crappy Internet connection and so if you have a better one this time would go down a lot(u people who live in sweeden are really lucky to have all that nice huge pipes!!!).
what really impressed me was the speed of the system!!! its so freaking fast! when comparing with ubuntu! i guess its a bit bloated now…. which is a bit sad.. 
the default debain sys had most of the stuff working in my lap… it could hibernate, sound works with no problems!!!(so far 
)… so it was pretty much all i needed… the wifi support is something that i am not worried about that much although i can use it… so i really didn’t check whether it works or not… i guess i will have to get some ndiswrapper or something working to get the wifi… which i won’t need so… i won’t prolly do it…
and i feel really good that i am using the real FOSS thing now, the big brother of all distros… debian! btw i am using the unstable testing version.. called lenny… if you are out on the look out for a stable less bloated distro, why not give a try to debain! its really nice… and it will leave a really fresh feeling in your mind after installation
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