Officially, Debian is a widely used Linuxdistribution that meets people's needs with stability, lots ofsoftware and years of security releases. The Debian community has lotsof developers and will tell you that it's just the right thing ifyou're tired of living on Red Hat's bleeding edge.

Unfortunately, that's a legend. The truth is somewhat different, as Ihave found out by actually running a server using Debian's 'Woody'release.

By the time it was replaced

Yesterday I talked about how I made a day-longexcursion into the depths of Gnome, trying to chase down a problem wewere having customizing Gnome's main menu, when I could have skippedmost of the work by doing some Googling first. I thought it would beinterested to give some more detail about the problem and the processI followed in finding it.

The problem was that we want a submenu for our local applications toappear on the default main applications menu. I had everything elsenecessary (such