Debian in Academic and Public Organisations

Folks, I am a Computer Science professor at American University in Washington D.C. I want to recommend that we replace Solaris in our Computer Science department with Debian. In doing so, I know that we will encounter problems wuite specific to the public (as in non-profit, public s

Tomcat and Debian

Folks, Tomcat (the JSP/Java Servlets plug-in for Apache from Jakarta) is not available as a Debianised package. Is anyone working on this? Has anyone had success installing this under Debian? Is there a reason why a package hasn't yet been developed? I don't want to waste my time figh

JDK 1.2.2 with potato (Silly me!)

Folks, Thanks for all the help with JDK 1.2.2 on potato. It turns out my problem was largely my own stupidity in writing bad Java! I did learn some important things. To install JDK 1.2.2 from Blackdown or Sun: 1. Make a directory under /usr/local (I used /usr/local/sun). 2. Downl

Problems /etc/alternatives and JDK 1.2.2 installation?

Folks, I've always had some problems with Java on my Debian machines. I made a fairly major upgrade recently and it's stopped working entirely. I get some mystical traceback from the ClassLoader that's pretty much useless. The correct class file exists and so forth. simon$ java edu/american

CD/RW under potato

Folks, I'm getting pretty frustrated with my upgrade to potato. I bought a CD/RW at about the same time as upgrading, but I can't seem to make it work. I know I have to use the ide-scsi drivers, but I have no idea how to configure them. I can't make them recognise the devices I have. I