The thing is , too many ppa's O.O not gonna list all again rite ==

Bored with LMDE, just change to Mint 10. as usual, Wlan driver problem. BCM saks!!!
already installed ubuntu 10 before for colleague with same notebook model . same solution applied.
Might back to LMDE later.

is it really dead.. today just received another updates from OO, now i got 3.2.1-11 on my lmde.. and i think OO now is much, much better compared to 2-3 month back. back then it would lag alot, its splash screen on startup seems forever.. now that splash just below 3sec, really fast. and no more lag issue 

yup from unstable repo

Source
lmde will get another respin later this week to resolve black screen of death that effect many user who download lmde 201012..  thank god i did'nt download that, just a regular apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade from lmde 201009 till now   

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he's right. i've been using liquorix kernel for few days already 

when u install liquorix thru synaptic or apt-get, it will refresh ur grub automatically.. and when u reboot it wiil appear in grub selection

im using some unstable drivers last time n ubuntu 10.04 as well, but seems ubuntu 10.10 kinda always giving me trouble even using stable

so comments on linux mint 10 julia anyone?

@Powerwoot.
What was your previous kernel? LMDE uses the Testing kernel, currently frozen at 2.6.32, if I'm not mistaken.
TBH, the 'vanilla' 2.6.32 kernel is a very good one. Without getting too technical, You'll only probably see benefits with Liquorix  if you run a lot of apps that require a low-latency kernel. Liquorix has been know to be a good replacement for Real-Time kernels (think Ubuntu Studio or Studio 64 kernels).

With regards to regular desktop performance, the main difference is that with Liquorix, the order of services run is a bit different. Also, Liquurix seems to run more services/tasks (on boot) concurrently, while Debian's "vanilla" kernel tends to complete large tasks in batches,  which in turn causes some other services to take ages to complete (if you ever ran wicd, you'll know what I'm talking about).

Also, with Liquorix and other 2.6.36 kernels, you can do this
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about1687.html

Note: Only do it if you undestand what cgrouping is all about. I take no responsibility if you break your system.

@Powerwoot
I edited the second part of my post, so you might want to read it again.

Also, is there ever going to be a "Stable" release of LMDE?
It's based on Debian Testing, so labeling it as Stable would seem a bit oxymoronic, unless they plan to freeze it at Squeeze.

Yes, it's only the labeling. Most of you should already know that even Debian Unstable is more stable than 90% of distros out there. Stability is the Debian motto.

even compiled the latest stable kernel...still the same fckin "setting up fstab" error...WTF ubuntu 10.10!