Debian Etch
I was thinking about writing a post about how the newly released stable Etch is rather good, and was easy to set-up and get going. Well, it was easy to install and get all the things I needed installed, but it’s crashed more times in the past few days than Ubuntu has in the past few months.
Also, the default IME (uim) is difficult to configure (I want to make it use a task bar icon rather than the GTK toolbar and make the selected IM persist throughout a session, rather than being per-field).
Using the Google search box on Iceweasel crashed X twice (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace worked), X crashed such that I couldn’t even Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or switch to a VT a total of one times (one too many), and Gajim crashes in an entirely reproducible manner (but only on stable Etch as far as I know - #3104).
In GNOME’s コンピュータ (computer), and in the å ´æ‰€ (places?) thing which holds a list of places one might want to find things both have nine items which should not be there. They are “volume”s of varying size, some of which look like they could be unmounted partitions, none of which are in /etc/fstab, but there are too many for them all to be partitions on this machine.
When trying to rename files with Nautilus, it usually just doesn’t work (i.e. no selecting and typing over, stops accepting input after several characters have been typed - I haven’t even tried entering Japanese text).
To its credit, it did give me a somewhat appropriate environment when I selected Japanese at the installer - an IME, Japanese fonts. Although the IME is not as good as Ubuntu’s default (scim), and there are not as many fonts as Ubuntu comes with (i.e. enough to render all of the text of the list of languages on Wikipedia’s Main Page - on Debian all but three code-points of Telugu will display after an apt-get install '^ttf-*'). And the default font in Iceweasel looks like it’s bitmapped.
In other news I have translated approximately 20% of Gajim to Japanese (the easiest 20%).