Puzzling over bastille install

[Brian Lunergan]

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> Brian Lunergan wrote:
> 
> <snippage>
> 
>> Went back in and found those menu entries. Just because I could I
>> picked up everything on the suggested and recommended menu lists that
>> wasn't greyed out. Nice and cleanly on so I punch 'sudo bastille -n'
> 
> The grayed out entries should have been what's already installed...

So I figured.

>> into a terminal window and try things out. Interesting and
>> educational in its own way, but I reran it with the revert option and
>> then pulled it back off. Opens with two error lines indicating it
>> doesn't see my setup as a stable release so it backs itself off to
> 
> Interesting. What Ubuntu/Debian version are you running? I've never
> actually installed Bastille but I hear good things about it and was
> considering a closer look for my laptop (Edgy).

The Badger (5.10). I was a little suprised myself as I thought it was a 'stable' 
release. While it's a nice touch that Bastille can back itself up to try and 
relate to an 'older' version the truly puzzling thing was that the other errors 
suggested it's default answers can't be applied to a stock, non-network install 
of an older edition.

> It's good to know that you had no trouble with the revert and uninstall
> process too. Bastille claims it will be painless of course, but I've
> known dentists who said the same thing...
> 
>> Speaking of updating, the update tool is prompting me about moving to
>> the LTS (dapper drake??) edition. I doubt doing it by download would
>> be advisable on dialup so I requested the CD... of Kubuntu. As
>> interesting as Gnome is, I can't say I've found it as intuitive to
>> work with as I was hoping for. OTOH, Kde seems a more likely matchup.
>> I think I will just sit by and read the posts for a little while
>> until the disk shows up and I can do an install to try things out.
> 
> I'd say they're all intuitive once you get to know your way around. :)
> 
> I prefer the cleaner an leaner appearance of Gnome myself. The default
> KDE themes look a little "cartoonish" in my unimportant opinion. I like
> small, consistent, and uncluttered. Nothing makes me cringe more than
> sitting in the library or wherever, glancing over at a Windows enslaved
> neighbor, and seeing a desktop polluted with 187 shortcuts and a
> color scheme that stretches the moral boundraries of "truecolor".
> 
> BLECH!

Ah well, what can I say. In my own defence of the Windows side of my machine I 
have modified the look with the Tango project and use a feature of my wallpaper 
manager to turn off the desktop icons. Toolbar, clocX in an upper corner, and 
the background are it.

-- 
Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada


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