hey clem, question.

Post by **clem** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:10 am

Hi,

It's planned for 3.x. I think it's a very promising project and an already great piece of software. Their developers are very active and hopefully when we start looking at it for Linux Mint 3.x they'll have fixed a series of issues (java swing 1.5 guis, toggle button on pygtk.. etc).

Clem

Alephcat · Post by **Alephcat** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:22 am

the next Beryl release is scheduled for 20th Feb (coincidence?) by which time they should have fixed most of the outstanding bugs with the current release

Post by **clem** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:34 am

ah ah !! Forget about it !!

Post by **clem** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:06 pm

That's funny I would have said the opposite. In a Debian based distribution the ONLY right way to install something is via APT... it's documented, standardized and extremely consistent. If you install Firefox, Opera, Google Earth, whatever you want... the procedure is the same, and is defined by your distribution.

In Windows, it's pure chaos. Depending on who's developing the software you'll end up running a self extracting zip file, some nullsoft installer, some binary you just don't have a clue of... or whatever you think is going to install the soft you want without doing stuff to your system you actually can't check... anyway, you see what I mean?

Clem

marcus0263 · Post by **marcus0263** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:25 pm

clem wrote:That's funny I would have said the opposite. In a Debian based distribution the ONLY right way to install something is via APT... it's documented, standardized and extremely consistent. If you install Firefox, Opera, Google Earth, whatever you want... the procedure is the same, and is defined by your distribution.

In Windows, it's pure chaos. Depending on who's developing the software you'll end up running a self extracting zip file, some nullsoft installer, some binary you just don't have a clue of... or whatever you think is going to install the soft you want without doing stuff to your system you actually can't check... anyway, you see what I mean?

Clem

AAAH yes, Apt is a beautiful thing!!!!!!!! Only thing better is portage

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apt-get install <package name>

Can't really get any simpler than that, and apt does a wonderful job with dependancies. I have to work with Redhat, Fedora and CentOS at work, I just want to SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM.

OK, EOR....

Alephcat · Post by **Alephcat** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:06 pm

Beryl has its own repository's have a look at my howto if you want to know how to add them and install Beryl.

justo · Post by **justo** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:39 pm

I am on Mint Bianca live now.It is great,It is beautiful. I have not tested everything yet.But so far all I did works fine.My Mint Bea had an update that crashed my wireless.This has the wireless working.If I load it I hope my wireless stays on if I take updates.The Mint gets better all the time.I like the improved looks and control buttons. Thanks Clem.