This is my first machine with wattOS on it.  I am away from home for a week and attempting to set it up in such a manner that I'll be able to use a similar setup for my other laptops and desktops

I've worked on computers since college in the 1970's and built my first S-100 bus CP/M machine in 1980 or 1981, a couple years before IBM came out with PC's, and basically am very familiar with lots of different hardware, but most of my programming was business related,  so I never did much C or C++ or Jave type stuff unless I had no other way to get the job done.

I worked with Microport UNIX in 1986 and then ATT Unix and SCO Xenix in the 80's and early 90's for businesses and then gave it up when there were major OS related problems and I moved some of them over to networks.   In the mid 90's I played with Mandrake, and eventually they changed, and then in the 2000's I worked with a nuber of distros trying to get my stock market account trading over onto Linux, but eventually the broker didn't want to support Linux and I lost interest again.

My real problem is that I am very tired of MS and their total disregard for performance and efficiency, and want to be running something that runs well doing things *I* want, not buried trying to do things I don't care about.

So here I am, testing distros, trying to see if I can find one that I like working with...
This particular machine is

wattOS R8
Microwatt
HP DV9000 17" 1440x900 Laptop with webcam and touchpad
AMD Turion X2 64 about 2 ghz
NVIDIA 7150M Graphics
4 gb RAM
2 SATA drives, 250 gb Windows Vista + 320 gb various Linux distros
SD card slot - non bootable
DVD R/W
4 USB ports
Ext VGA Port (sometimes with 22" monitor)
WiFi
RJ-45 Ethernet
S-Video

I have older laptops, and will try it on a Dell Inspiron 8100 with 933 mhz Celeron and 512 mb with 20 gb drive when I get home.

I will also try it on my desktops once I have it working on the laptops, but they get tricky due to the 780i motherboards with triple SLI dual output PCI-E Video boards with 6 screens attached to each.  I also have an additional 4 screens (up to 4, but usually 2 per desktop) hooked via eVGA adaptors off USB ports.  I don't know if I can get those to work on Linux or not, but will give it a try.  There are 18 screens total in the array, usually 2 to 4 of which are driven by the laptops, and the rest are divided between the desktops.

This is a broken package error I get if I try to install build-essential.  From that respect, I don't think its related to qupzilla. 

I don't really know what causes broken packages.  I just now that if I hit that I should stop and quit without trying to install, because the last time I tried going further and installing anyway (with a different distro), I ended up completely hosed and had to reload from scratch.  IIRC I had used a testing repo while installing some packages, and actually qupzilla was the one, come to think of it, and ended up hosing the OS completely.

So far I've been able to compile and install what I've needed without installing build-essential, but I sippose the problem will surface again...

Reworded: Midori is fine.  I just did a head to head comparison of qupailla, midori, iceweasel and seamonkey, using a test of dispalying a mostly text webpage and playing a youtube video (i installed the flashplugin-nonfree for that) and midori was by far the lightest on memory usage because it didn't use any more memory than the others, but it saved about 60 mb because it didn't load a separate program additionally to play the video.  So my new favorite is Midori

What I really like about your R8 is that because you are running the newer kernel and xorg, my video works without special drivers.

I think my not being able to compile problems and broken packages trying to install things might be related to that "dependency problem" you mentioned. 

I would rather see a stable wheezy distro, and a separate jessie based tesing distro, that becomes the new stable distro eventually.  You have more good than glitches here, and I think it would be best to fix as many glitches as reasonable, and when its pretty solid, move on to new jessie based code, 

Anyway, I like your microwatt, and think its a good distro

I try to move it somewhere on the screen, but its hard to get it to stay put, even though I'm not moving my finger.  I guess its a good thing if the problems I'm having are not major, huh?

But it does make it difficult to for example bring up a map and try to zoom in or out.

Any ideas what I might try to fix it?

PS: Its not always jittery.  I suspended, and then came back and am using the machine again, and now it seems ok.  If I knew a way to reset it when it gets jittery that would help.

I'm not exactly sure the reason.  I was able to install gcc ok, but I won't find out what other development related things I will need until I run into them when I try to install something not already packaged up for this distro.

So far, my impressions are quite good of the distro itself.  The things I like most are that its using a very current kernel and xorg, and that it seems to run pretty light out of the box.  I'm hoping to lighten it more for my old clunkers and see if I can get a menu generator working for it.

thanks for any help...