Hai,
I need to remove perl for security reasons.But perl
is needed for most of the system utilities.So I am
unable to remove.
Is there any way that I can remove perl?
Or How do I disable perl not to run any scripts?
Please suggest me
Sarav
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google ssh reverse dns debian
turned up this as the first hit:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2002/03/msg00081.html
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Sam Watkins wrote:
I think you'll find that in Debian at the moment, "grub" is a better
bootloader if you want things to just work when you install new kernel
images. Try installing grub and see if that helps.
If you want to keep using lilo, and want help to fix it, please post
your lilo.c
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:12:18PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> > > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named
> > > _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu.
> >
> > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu."
>
> I think Ubuntu is
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Sarge NetInstall is great for installing Sarge, but it
> appears not to be usable as a live CD for booting onto
> a system that has a broken installation.
It is usable, but not exactly convenient, as a rescue disk. As it says
in the
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:59:12PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Thats not what I meant. What at the file access rights and owner/group of
> the /etc/resolv.conf file?
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144 Dec 24 16:53 /etc/resolv.conf
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:03:31AM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote:
> I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip
> with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me
> to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more.
If you set the color depth to 16 bits instead of 24 bits, you shou
> > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named
> > _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu.
>
> Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu."
I think Ubuntu is a great name. Meaningful!
Perhaps the poster would be turned off by any
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:09:43PM +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote:
> What would you recommend of software to do simple directory-based
> backups to an FTP-server?
I like "lftp", it can do recursive upload / download (mirror, mirror -R).
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:54:01AM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On Monday 27 December 2004 12:32 am, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > I think the issue is that packages are not directly uploaded to testing.
> > So it is possible to have version X of package A installed in testing.
> >...
> > If a seriou
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:42:31PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> > > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> > > servers, it's plenty st
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:43:43PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
> >
> >>On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote:
> >>
> >>>The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing
> >>>named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hur
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 22:39 -0600, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:05, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> > servers, it's plenty stable enough in m
On Monday 27 December 2004 12:32 am, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I think the issue is that packages are not directly uploaded to testing.
> So it is possible to have version X of package A installed in testing.
>...
> If a serious or grave bug is filed, the package simply will not make it
> into testi
Mitchell Laks wrote:
Tim said:
If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are
one of
1. an idiot
2. have very limited needs/no experience
3. talking out of your ass
4. have no concept of what it means to be responsible for others' work
Even Sarge? I need something more
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Even Sarge? I need something more up to date then woody, for my postgresql
> and
> need the integration that sarge provides, vs backports + woody. Is Sarge that
> dangerous on 12/26/2004?
I've been running sarge on three production servers and one ho
Mitchell Laks wrote:
Tim said:
Even Sarge? I need something more up to date then woody, for my postgresql and
need the integration that sarge provides, vs backports + woody. Is Sarge that
dangerous on 12/26/2004? I want others opinions. I have 2 servers running
sarge 24/7 right now (for last 3 w
User Sam Watkins wrote::
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Mateusz ?oskot wrote:
I'm running Debian and looking for some tools and solutions
which could help me with merging external snapshot of some project
into my own local version of it in the CVS repository.
There is a progam called cvs
Tim said:
> If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are
> one of
>
> 1. an idiot
> 2. have very limited needs/no experience
> 3. talking out of your ass
> 4. have no concept of what it means to be responsible for others' work
Even Sarge? I need something more up to d
Paul Johnson wrote:
Right. However, Windows has some fairly stupid ways of handling user
privledges, thus many games require Administrator rights. So guess
what most people run as in Windows?
Yup. I certainly ran as Admin under Win2k because I just didn't want to
mess with it. No sudo or
First let me make sure I'm looking at the right file:
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/55numlockx
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/55numlockx.dpkg-dist
The first one is the currently installed version right?
It contains:
(
test -x /usr/bin/X11/numlockx && /usr/bin/X11/numlockx on
)
but the numlockx package has its executabl
On Sunday 26 December 2004 3:11 pm, Scarletdown wrote:
> http://internet.ls-la.net/pictures/images/Computer/Windows-Cement.png
>
> Just had to share that with everyone. At least, I thought it was
> rather amusing. :D
That would have been on topic on debian-curisoa, and it's a few years
old n
On Sunday 26 December 2004 5:05 pm, Carl Fink wrote:
> Without taking up the issue of "my mailer is better than Outlook" (of
> course it is) XP's filesystem permissions *also* limit damage to
> user-owned files.
Right. However, Windows has some fairly stupid ways of handling user
privledges, th
I am running kernel 2.6.10 on a asus-pt4 mb, debian testing, geforce4
mx4000 video card.
I have a 3 button serial mouse and I want the middle button to copy what
I have highlighted, but don't know what to alter in my xf86config-4 file.
Please note that when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree8
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:39:47PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote:
> I am getting really sick of people pushing sid for production use. Please
> stop
> doing it. I don't really care if it meets your needs. If it does, you are a
> tiny minority; your experience with it in this capacity is anecdotal, a
On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:05, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience.
You've got to be kidding me. I've run sid for ab
On Sunday 26 December 2004 10:57 am, Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> Okay, I'm confused. Does Debian not use the Linux kernel?
Yes, but not always. You have your choice of Linux, GNU/Hurd,
GNU/FreeBSD, and GNU/NetBSD. Check out the Debian Ports page for more
information. http://www.debian.org/ports
On Dec 26 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Because w32codecs and ndiswrappers are x86 binary packages, they tie
> many people to x86-32 (even in a chroot) who would rather go whole
> hog to x86-64.
Not only that, but all the other platforms (like ppc) that receive
less attention that x86-64. You have to
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:19:13PM -0500, Douglas Ward wrote:
> If you just want something for carrying encrypted passwords, get an older
> model Palm from eBay; many of the +4 year old models are
> $30 and less.
It's useless to carry around encrypted data when the private key is also
on the de
Ryan wrote:
> Sure, but the logic I use is simple: If I'm not willing to blow away
> the box then I'm not going to try to install something I know nothing
> about. Since I need to be productive, without any downtime, (it's my
> primary box) I need to ensure I can recover from whatever may happen.
On 2004-Dec-21 23:19, Jacob S wrote:
>
> Except that my usb keychain was only $35 US. I'm still a little too
> cheap to buy a Palm. One of these days I'll probably do that too,
> though.
>
> And yes, I realize the security holes in using an unknown computer to
> read passwords from a usb drive. I'
Hi! I recently switched to debian Sarge (and sid) for all of my work (YAY I
LOVE IT!).
Now, until now, I had been using redhat 7.3 for my servers. I have many redhat
7.3 servers, and now, I have installed 2 debian sarge servers (i know it is
not yet released, but I have tested it for months a
* Cameron Hutchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041222 14:56]:
> # find $dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g=u,o=-rwx
To reduce this yet further, you could do it as
chmod -R g=u $dir
This handles both directories and files in one pass, setting group
perms equal to user perms, and nothing else (no m
Hi,
Up until a few days ago, I was happily using Kerberos 4 in Evolution
to authenticate against a Cyrus IMAP server. Then it suddenly stopped
working. Initially, I assumed that something had changed in the server
configuration, but then I found this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:53:05AM +, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:39:24AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote:
> > Mike M wrote:
> > >2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz?
> > > I used:
> > > # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/
> > > # gunzip NEWS.Debian.
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 05:05 +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using debian/unstable. I want to know which package i need to
> install that can enable php syntax highlight in emacs editor. I have
> used "aptitude search" but can't find related packages.
Either html-helper-mode
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:09:42 -0800, James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Understandable, but I don't think it's necessary to "blow away" the
> box. At install time, it should be possible to switch to a shell and
> simply rename your /home (or whatever) directory and remove the rest
> manually
Hi,
I'm looking for a webcam for video-conferencing that is well-supported
by Debian sid. I will probably have to go for a USB model, since my
laptop only provides unpowered IEEE 1394 (FireWire). Do you have any
recommendations?
Is a camera with an autofocus lens worth the extra money?
Thanks in
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 22:36 +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found on the net a how-to for setting up of my IrDA device.
> Unfortunately the how-to is written for RedHat and points to some file
> /etc/sysconfig/irda where I have to change some values:
>
> DEVICE=/dev/ttyS2 to DEV
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 20:43 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> >
> >>On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote:
> >>
> >>>The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing
> >>>named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have
difficulty with english as localization is quite poor) but if you take
Not true. Linux is *quite* user friendly. It just happens to be
very picky about who its friends are :-)
-Roberto
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Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote:
The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing
named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu.
And what about using something called Debian? Is that a "g
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:20:49PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> If you aren't in a domain new users in XP are by default added to the
> Admins group. In reality almost everybody at Microsoft ran as Admin on
> their own box.
There are Linux distributions that do the same thing (Linspire?).
-
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:05:46PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> Without taking up the issue of "my mailer is better than Outlook" (of
> course it is) XP's filesystem permissions *also* limit damage to
> user-owned files.
If you aren't in a domain new users in XP are by default added to the
Admins gr
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote:
> > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing
> > named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu.
>
> And what about using something called Debian? Is that a "goo
Hi all,
I am using debian/unstable. I want to know which package i need to
install that can enable php syntax highlight in emacs editor. I have
used "aptitude search" but can't find related packages.
Thank you for suggestions.
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:15:01AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 10:50 -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> > Well, no. Most email viruses are scripts executed by the mailer. If you
> > have a script-executing mailer there's no reason it couldn't execute a virus
> > under Linux.
>
> Ve
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 the mental interface of
Robert Vangel told:
> Mike M wrote:
>
> >2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz?
> >
> > I used:
> > # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/
> > # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz
> > # vi NEWS.Debian
> >
> > It worked but it seems there s
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:39:24AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote:
> Mike M wrote:
> >2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz?
> > I used:
> > # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/
> > # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz
> > # vi NEWS.Debian
> >
> > It worked but it seems there should be
Mike M wrote:
2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz?
I used:
# cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/
# gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz
# vi NEWS.Debian
It worked but it seems there should be some sort of tool.
Whenever I have things like that, I use
gzip -dc |less
Would be good
Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> v3.7 and have to disable ACPI to get it to boot. I have not yet
> attempted "sarge" because I am not at a point where I can blow away my
> box. My goal, however, is to be running Debian (I'm somewhat sick of
> the Fedora pace.)
Understandable, but I don't think it's necess
Hi,
I just switched from mutt 1.3 on woody to 1.5 on Sid. I bumped
into the change from
set alternates="foo | bar"
to
alternates "foo | bar"
described in this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/06/msg00150.html
(ooh, highlighting on the links :-)
The change fixed the p
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:04:32 +0100, Andrea Vettorello
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Have you tried with google? This is one of the first link:
> http://tuxmobil.org/toshiba_s5005_s504.html
>
Yeah, I found that a few days ago. It mentions ACPI, but doesn't
really detail how to solve any problem
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:26:12 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess, at this point, I am not entirely sure where to begin. I am
> looking for guidance with ACPI.
>
> I am currently running FC2 with kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and cannot go past
> it on either FC3 or, apparently, anythin
Hi,
is there a sarge/lvm2 bug ??
All ..remove functions doesn't work :(
mess-mate
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:46:23 -0700, Paul E Condon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sarge NetInstall is great for installing Sarge, but it
> appears not to be usable as a live CD for booting onto
> a system that has a broken installation. In the past
> I have used Woody install CDs for this purpose, and
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Could you elaborate on changing the size and borders of a selection in
The Gimp? I've worked with it for quite a while at home and at work and
I've NEVER been able to resize a selection once it's been made. I know
about the "add" and "subtract" modes, but what I'd like is to
http://internet.ls-la.net/pictures/images/Computer/Windows-Cement.png
Just had to share that with everyone. At least, I thought it was rather
amusing. :D
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:08:17PM +0100, Marc Demlenne wrote:
> Seems to be a good way to operate, rather secure... But isn't there a
> way to manage this automatically ? It doesn't sounds impossible nor
> stupid, does it ?
It's really easy to set up your own "dists" directory with a tweaked
'Pa
Um, I think you're trying to build the 2.4 modules from the source
package (the /usr/src/modules/alsa gives it away). With 2.6, you need
to build the modules within the kernel tree itself.
Please note, first, that ALSA modules are shipped in kernel-image-2.6*
packages, so if you ar
Sarge NetInstall is great for installing Sarge, but it
appears not to be usable as a live CD for booting onto
a system that has a broken installation. In the past
I have used Woody install CDs for this purpose, and
before Woody I used Knoppix. More recently, I've noticed
that the latest versions of
On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote:
> The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing
> named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu.
And what about using something called Debian? Is that a "good name" or a
"commercially feasible name"?
Perhaps you have that impress
I guess, at this point, I am not entirely sure where to begin. I am
looking for guidance with ACPI.
I am currently running FC2 with kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and cannot go past
it on either FC3 or, apparently, anything else. I have tried updating
the kernel on FC2 to 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 and have to disable A
Greetings debian users
I have an up-to-date Debian Sarge installation
that's been running fine with the 2.4.27-1-386 kernel
for several months on a 5 year-old 250 MHz Compaq
A couple of days ago I tried a 2.6.8-1-386 kernel
via apt-get install
The 2.6 kernel b
> With that said, what I usually do for my servers is do an update every
> two weeks, storing the list of packages that WOULD be upgraded in a text
> file. Then when I do my next update, I compare that list vs the list of
> two weeks ago and only install the packages that HAVEN'T changed. This
> gi
From: Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debuser
Subject: Re: Linux Functionality?
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:33:26 -0600
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 13:18 -0500, Jozsef Mak wrote:
--snip--
This will move the entire selection box. What I want to do is RESIZE the
selection box. (Like you would resi
Hello,
I found on the net a how-to for setting up of my IrDA device.
Unfortunately the how-to is written for RedHat and points to some file
/etc/sysconfig/irda where I have to change some values:
DEVICE=/dev/ttyS2 to DEVICE=/dev/ttyS1
Who knows the debian equivalent for this file?
Yevgen
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 01:38:11PM -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> Ya' know, that has been something which I have wondered about. While
> I like what Linspire is trying to do (i.e. produce consumer-priced
> machines with Linux) I am somewhat fearful of their approach. They
> could do a lot of damag
Op zo, 26-12-2004 te 16:46 +1100, schreef Sam Watkins:
> For example, windows XP and Max OS X have a user-interface for switching
> between multiples users' desktops. We don't have such an interface in
> Debian / under X as far as I know,
Ubuntu is also Debian, it is distributed with Gnome 2.8
Hello,
I am using debian testing, kernel 2.6.7, on an asus laptop with Intel
855GM chipset. I get no sound, and dmesg shows a lot of lines like:
codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x700300]
or:
codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
I saw posts advising to put snd-inte
Op zo, 26-12-2004 te 20:33 +, schreef Jean-Michel Hiver:
> With debian, installing programs is a breeze though (using command
> line tools):
>
> To find a program:
>
> apt-cache search
>
> To install it:
>
> apt-get install
>
> To upgrade your system:
>
> apt-get update
>
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:56:47PM -0600, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> To a large extent, those books will apply to any distribution. The
> biggest difference between Red Hat and Debian is the package system.
> Everything else is pretty much the same.
A lot of files are in different places.
I expect
Ed Sutherland wrote:
Do any Debian users have Linux installed on a Dell desktop with a
flat-panel monitor? If so, I'll need help finding the correct video
configuration. A quick check using Knoppix results in the video mode
being unknown. Thanks.
What kind of video card and LCD are you using?
-
Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
I am looking to move from FC2 to Debian, but have questions...
1. I am still a Linux newbie. Most of the install issues, both with
the OS and with applications, have been taken care of for me with the
slick install wizard and the RPM-based installations. How much of a
learnin
> > One thing I would like to know how to do, but I don't think it's
> > possible, is to find out what process is on the other end of a pipe.
> > If that were possible, I could write a graphical system display tool,
> > that shows you all your processes and how they're connected together.
> >
> >
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:28:08 -0500, stan wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:46:12AM -0500, JohnOfArc wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:01:12 -0500, stan wrote:
>> we may not like it, but the overwhelming majority of desktop users run
>> MS, and most folks probably have a few copies floating aroun
I installed sarge from debian-net-installer and I needed to boot with
"linux26" to get my SATA disks seen in a Asus P5GD1 Pro (ICH6R controller)
Normal (2.4) installer would not see disks. I've read somewhere that ICH6R
support is only in 2.4.28+ kernels. (debian sarge net installer uses
2.4.27)
B
Do any Debian users have Linux installed on a Dell desktop with a
flat-panel monitor? If so, I'll need help finding the correct video
configuration. A quick check using Knoppix results in the video mode
being unknown. Thanks.
Ed
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:26:33PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Last time I looked Debian included about 14,000. How many does Microsoft
> Windows include?
No, no, no. An average user will ask "can I run application X, Y, Z (which I
absolutely need) on this system?". The point is not how much thi
Lets not take this to private mail - keep it on the list
On Saturday 25 December 2004 09:51, you wrote:
> Dear Alan,
>
> I logged in root to access /etc/resolv.conf
Thats not what I meant. What at the file access rights and owner/group of
the /etc/resolv.conf file?
...
> - Original Message
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 14:42 -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> > > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> > > servers, it's plenty stable en
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 11:37 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Debian - a distribution which uses the Linux kernel with the GNU OS
> > tools and a whole bunch of associated userland applications
>
> Bzt. Debian, a project which puts together distributions of various
> ker
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:48 +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote:
> Sam Watkins wrote:
> > For example, windows XP and Max OS X have a user-interface for switching
> > between multiples users' desktops. We don't have such an interface in
> > Debian / under X as far as I know, but it possible to do the
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 20:33 +, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
--snip--
> Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have
> difficulty with english as localization is quite poor) but if you take
--snip--
I'm actually really surprised that you find the localization poor. In my
ex
> On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> > servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience.
Running unstable on an outward-facing serv
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 11:32 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
> > Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have
> > difficulty with english as localization is quite poor)
>
> Although I cannot comment on the localization issue let's please not
> repea
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Debian - a distribution which uses the Linux kernel with the GNU OS
tools and a whole bunch of associated userland applications
Bzt. Debian, a project which puts together distributions of various
kernels, userland tools and applications the most famous of which is their
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:09:43 +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen
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> What would you recommend of software to do simple directory-based
> backups to an FTP-server?
>
the ncftp package comes with 'ncftpput' and 'ncftpget' - it's handy
for scripted uploading/downloading via FTP.
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On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 13:18 -0500, Jozsef Mak wrote:
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> >(This has always been a pet peeve of mine with The Gimp, though I
> >believe Photoshop suffers from it as well. WHY OH WHY can't we drag the
> >borders of a selection after we've made it??!?!?!)
>
> You can. In Gimp make a selection,
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have
difficulty with english as localization is quite poor)
Although I cannot comment on the localization issue let's please not
repeat this particular piece of FUD. Studies of children who have never use
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:27:41 -0600, Alex Malinovich
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> On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 13:57 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:48:24 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Debian is not Linux.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Okay, I'm confused. Does Debian
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 13:57 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:48:24 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Debian is not Linux.
> >
>
>
> Okay, I'm confused. Does Debian not use the Linux kernel?
>
> Not trying to be rude... I'm a newbie (still downloading
Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:48:24 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Debian is not Linux.
> Okay, I'm confused. Does Debian not use the Linux kernel?
Yes, it uses the Linux kernel. However, the kernel itself is NOT a complete
operating system - it needs userlan
Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote:
Sam Watkins wrote:
For example, windows XP and Max OS X have a user-interface for switching
between multiples users' desktops. We don't have such an interface in
Debian / under X as far as I know, but it possible to do the same sort
of thing from the command line, it's j
On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience.
I agree with this, with the caveat tha
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:48:24 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Debian is not Linux.
>
Okay, I'm confused. Does Debian not use the Linux kernel?
Not trying to be rude... I'm a newbie (still downloading Debian).
Thanx,
Ryan
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On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:26 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Curt Howland wrote
> > None of which, last I looked, was included in Windows from Microsoft.
>
>
> Ron Johnson writes:
> > Well heck, if that's the tack you're going to take: how many
> > *applicat
John Hasler schrieb:
Curt Howland wrote
None of which, last I looked, was included in Windows from Microsoft.
Ron Johnson writes:
Well heck, if that's the tack you're going to take: how many
*applications* are written for *Linux*?
Last time I looked Deb
Curt Howland wrote
> None of which, last I looked, was included in Windows from Microsoft.
Ron Johnson writes:
> Well heck, if that's the tack you're going to take: how many
> *applications* are written for *Linux*?
Last time I looked Debian included a
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:31:48 -0500, Michael Murphy
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> She may well be right. I can't speak for Northgate's motives in this
> regard, but I think that I can fairly say that their implementation
> is slipshod and does not reinforce a customer's decision to purchase
> a l
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