[64studio-devel] 64Studio experience

[Daniel James]

Hi Hector,

> I would like to thank you for your good work! I've been using 64Studio
> 32bit and works great.

Thanks for the feedback :-)

> I even didn't had any problems installing the
> Nvidia proprietary driver.

Did you use nVidia's tarball, or one of the unofficial Debian packages?

> Is it ok to add the Debian Etch repository for getting those
> packages not available in the 64Studio repository?

Yes indeed. You can add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list like:

deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main

where 'uk' is your nearest Debian mirror. Then do an apt-get update 
followed by apt-get install packagename. (Or you can use Synaptic of 
course).

I wouldn't recommend doing an apt-get dist-upgrade against Debian 
testing, unless you actually want to follow testing.

As for 64 Studio being out of sync with testing, that has started to 
happen as we have gone into feature freeze for the 1.0 release. It may 
be that we recommend people to use snapshot.debian.net if they don't 
want to follow testing, after our 1.0 release - what do you think about 
that, Free?

> Are you contemplating releasing a i686 32bit kernel?

It's not a top priority for us at the moment, although I can see it 
would be of benefit for users with recent 32-bit machines.

> can I
> use the source that I found through the FAQ in your site to build it?

You'd be most welcome to. If you are able to build Debian packages, 
please let us know. We could make your i686 kernel package available 
  to other 32-bit users who might need it.

Cheers!

Daniel