I've been seriously considering abandoning my RedHat 9 installation for Libranet, but then I look in this forum and see no activity. Is it that there aren't many people in LQ using lbranet, or do they just go to the Debian forum? I was real excited about the transition, but now I am concerned.

I use Libranet, so you are not alone anymore . I've just got myself the 2.8 and, for my surprise, it was not nearly as cool as 2.7 was. Ok, I've got a bunch of games, programs and a hole lot more. But the distro is very inconsistent. I've tried to upgrade gaim through apt-get and the xadmimenu got broken. No error messages, nothing. When I fire xadmimenu up and try to install a package from the CD, the window simply closes. I've reinstalled the distro, make sure everything was fine and installed gaim from the CD. Really old, 0.58 I believe, as most of the packages shipped with it. I then apt-get for it and it broke xadmimenu again.... Very very lame. They should have tested it because most users will do apt-get upgrade and get the distribution broken... sad, but true :S. Let's wait for 3.0 show us some good stuff as 2.7 did and I bet we will have a hole lot more peoples at this forum

hmm, I have the iso of 2.7. Those comments about 2.8 scares me. I was going to use that, but now I'm beginning to think I should just install Debian.

I've tried 2.7 statmobile, and I highly recommend it. It's my favorite distribution together with Slackware 9.0 (did not like 9.1 though). I've done a review of Libranet 2.7 and as you can see, many others agree:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/review...php?product=99

2.8 is not bad. I gives you 3D acceleration right out of the box, newer packages and a hole bunch of toys, games and tools. Nice fonts, easy to configure. But if you run apt-get on it... say good bye to some applications . Though, I've apache, mysql, gaim, games, everything running fine. Just that xadminmenu is driving me nuts .

You need install the latest version of adminmenu first then use the new update safe archive to avoid most of thoughs problems. http://libranet.com/support/2.8/0420

As too the lack of activity here, I think that is because most Libranet users use the Libranet forum at http://forum.libranet.com/

The only reason this forum is dead is because of the very active forum uteck posted.

Also, we have a moderately active libranet channel at #libranet on irc.debian.org, come on down!

Thanks a lot uteck!. That fixed my issues. Now Libranet runs smoothly and impressively fast. I need to reconfigure some stuff as the printer after upgrading the hole distribution. But it's just [b]that[b] good now. I also should read support links and faq more often..ghehe . Thanks once again!

Thanks admanb for the tips. I might be around on IRC sometimes. It has been a long time since I last used it . Hope I still remember how to /join there

Just came across this Libranet distro forum here at linuxquestions and it could be relatively quiet because Libranet works so well. The forum at the Libranet website is pretty small but the site has good support.