Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

Ben Collins writes: > I don't have time to list everything it fixes, but I can tell you that it > fixes EVERY issue that EVERYONE was having. Indeed, it's working perfectly here. Cheers! (I will no longer have to bug anyone about recompiling Perl...) > For those bitten by The Great Glibc Update

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

[-devel snipped] S. Champ writes: > what is the command to read these README documents, without having > to first use a command to un-gzip the same? zless -- There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD fortu

Re: Timeline for potato

Rainer Dorsch writes: > The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As > experience shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly > after freezing potato), kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. Well, I had been expecting XFree 4.0 in July, so this is good news :) from read

A reminder: debian-project exists

This message is just to remind everyone that [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian.org has been functional for some time now. If someone brings up an issue which is really non-technical (for example, the recent thing about Quake and some countries' evil laws), just set a Reply-To: debian-project and point this

Re: newbie debian questions

> Anybody can help me out? ps top xmkmf or tell me how can I find > them? ps and top are in procps, and xmkmf is in xlib6g-dev. You can find this out quicker by going to #debian on irc.openprojects.net and typing "!find ps" "!find xmkmf", etc. -- Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org/ Th

Re: apt-get on linux / download on NT

> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Joel Gautschi wrote: > > > I have a debian (slink) pc at home. Sometimes I want to update > > some packages or even the whole system - f.e. to a later debian > > dist. the problem is that I don't have a static connection to the > > internet (or sth like that) at home. My co

Re: Linux Install

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded the /main directory from the stable area on the > Debian.org FTP site and burned that to a CD, less the devel section. > (This and the disks directory almost fill one CD.) This is almost always not necessary; you can download the essentail files from disks-

Re: system shutdown from xdm

> Dave Whiteley wrote: > > > Now I am playing with my own linux systems, and I want to create a > > similar user to give my Wife an easy way to shut down the PC. I use the following solution to let my mom shut down the PC from xdm: ** Step 1: a short Xaw program. #include #include #include