Florian Kulzer wrote:
[snip]
The Debian package "cryptsetup" with built-in LUKS support (Linux
Unified Key Setup, see http://luks.endorphin.org) will probably meet
your requirements and it is relatively easy to use.
A nice and concise tutorial can be found here:
[snip]
Thanks very much for t
If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way
of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of
different methods, but which one might suit the following:
I only want to encrypt a single folder with personal stuff in it. Around
200 files or so. (The
On Friday 05 May 2006 00:37, Bill Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2006 15:37:58 +0100
>
[snip]
> It has been said many times; If you can not afford to deal with problem
> like this DO NOT use unstable. From the comments above I can only
> assume that you do not understand the Debian release method
On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, Rick Friedman wrote:
> I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg
> packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the
> upgrades.
>
> I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine.
> However, when
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 12:53, Curt Howland wrote:
[snip]
> I also note that the Sarge version of xbase-clients includes glxgears,
> which the latest Sid version does not. The new separate glxgears in
> Sid doesn't display the framerate, which sort of defeats the whole
> purpose of having glxgears
On Friday 14 April 2006 22:18, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
[snip]
> Finally, to all those people, who keep referring unstable for newbies -
> situations like this should be kept in mind.
>
> raju
Don't worry. With the kind of attitude on display among some of the regular
Debian-fanciers who post
On Sunday 19 March 2006 17:50, Leonid Grinberg wrote:
[snip]
> Unstable, I know, does not have this problem. So I am wondering, how
> unstable is it? I might be getting a new computer within a few months,
> and am considering installing Debian Unstable on it. But what should I
> expect? Will it cra
On Saturday 04 February 2006 05:35, Marc Shapiro wrote:
[snip]
A quick Google around "FUCK: Got signal 11 while manipulating kernel!" throws
up references to the the SucKIT rootkit. The following is from a CERN
advisory. Maybe worth checking.
"Here is a simple recipe to detect the SucKIT rootki
On Thursday 15 December 2005 20:15, Marcel Stoop wrote:
[snip]
> There is a nice blog of one of the gnome-debian maintainers about the
> release of Gnome 2.12 and GTK 2.8 in unstable.
>
> http://oskuro.net/blog/freesoftware/gnome-2.12-unstable-2005-12-15-14-19
>
Thanks a lot for the heads up. Tha
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:46, Marcel Stoop wrote:
[snip]
> gnome 2.12 isn't even in sid yet. So it will take at least a few months.
>
Is this because it's thought unreliable? I've been using Gnome 2.12 on a
couple of other distros without problems so far.
:)
Fish
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Antony Gelberg wrote:
[snip]
I like the one-question FAQ:
"I want to get more involved with DebCentral, what can I do to help? WHo
(sic) do I need to contact?"
What an informative resource.
The OP's post was sincere and his questions worthwhile. His site is also
new and so not yet fully wo
Josh King wrote:
Hey all,
Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really
would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs
on an idea I have.
[snip]
I wonder if you or colleagues have taken a good look at what other
distros and their users are do
Leonid Grinberg wrote:
Am I then right to conclude that Debian probably does not have the
drivers/modules packaged?
Debian does have ndiswrapper packaged, if that is what you need to use,
or at least it does on Testing and Unstable. I recently went through a
similar experience with a lapt
Adam Hardy wrote:
[snip]
sorry if this is a dumb question, but your email implies spam-assassin
does DNS look-ups to filter out spam - which is not what I thought
after giving spam assassin the once-over check-out. Is it so? What
level of effectiveness does it have?
And can it actually fi
Joey Hess wrote:
[snip]
I know of several people[1] who have already done a lot of work in this
area on Debian. It's illistrative that this wiki page changed from a
huge list of things that needed to be done manually before the sarge
release to "it just works (plus entirely too much info about
Joey Hess wrote:
[snip]
Have you even looked at the debian installer in the past year? Just
curious. This is an area where it's completly possible to satisfy both
groups.
I think the point is that just installing the stuff is only half the
story. It's like providing the raw ingredients for
Scott wrote:
[snip]
What Debian (or SOMEBODY please) needs is a new "stable" release at
least once a year with security updates, bugfixes AND *major* software
package (i.e 1.5 to 2.0, 3.6-4.0) updates to that release as the next
release is being simultaneously developed.
Wait, there is one I c
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hello,
Here's my list and please edit it to suit your preferences and add
more categories:
[snip]
cd-ripper [grip]
DE [xfce4]
mail server [cyrus21]
spamkiller [spamassassin]
dns [dnsmasq]
image viewer [f-spot]
text editor [gvim, gedit]
http proxy [privoxy]
email
Roberto Mura wrote:
Hi,
I'm a linux debian newbie, and i havo no idea about get working j2se 5.0
I have downloaded binaies, converted in deb, installed with dpkg,
but still get error:
java NoClassDefFound java/lang/Object
when trying to execute
./java -version
Could somene help me?
All I'v
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:21 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:46:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On 9/12/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Neither can I. gnomeo-desktop-environment depends upon sound-juicer >
> > > 2.10.1. And such a sound-juicer doesn't exis
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
[snip]
>
> Any way, have you any advice to get me closer to me goal of
> Bootsplashedness?
>
You might find this url helpful:
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124
FWIW, I've got bootsplash here working fine on a 2.6.11 kernel but I
canno
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 12:26 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
[snip]
> On a slow machine, I've noticed very slight improvements (slight enough
> to be imagined) with C++ apps (the KDE suite for example), that didn't
> quite make it usable enough.
[snip]
Thanks very much to you and to Florian for the repli
I wonder if anyone with experience of installing and using prelink would
tell me whether they've found it worthwhile or not. Also, is the process
irrevocable in practice, or can I back out and uninstall if it doesn't
work that well?
I'm running Debian primarily as a desktop here (Sid, with Gnome)
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 18:42 -0500, Ian wrote:
> No it isn't. That's where the programmers at Debian spend their time.
> Would someone mind giving answers instead of smart-alec remarks?
>
> --
> "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"
Perhaps this is of interest:
h
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 17:37 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:15:25PM -0700, Andy Streich wrote:
>
> > Opensource blog software is pretty good these days and simple to set up (at
>
> Argh wordpress
>
> 1) the WP release model is incompatible with debian's security release
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:07 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Sid, and i did an upgrade this morning.
> I got this.
>
>
> root-h1-59# apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 15:04 -0400, Steve A wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:29:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Steve A wrote:
> > Hey folks:
> I've installed sa-exim, but I can't find anything on Google on how to
> configure
> this properly. Everything I find is all over the place and not concise a
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 03:29 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> Debian has a development cycle.
[snip]
Thanks for your reply. I guess I was a bit overexcited at having an
excellent Debian system running well here! Will try to exercise some
patience, then.
:)
Fish
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Hi
I recently installed Debian testing. However, I wonder if there is a way
to upgrade from Gnome 2.8 to Gnome 2.10 without have to dist-upgrade the
whole shebang to unstable? I am fairly new to Debian and stability does
matter to a degree - for example, I have spent ages setting up
exim4/cyrus/ex
Steve Lamb wrote:
[snip]
Just my 2 cents, but trying to make everything relative won't do. There
are plenty of standards by which things can be judged (whether
anti-aliasing, interface design or meringues smothered in strawberry
sauce) though whether someone likes them or not is merely a questio
Steve Lamb wrote:
[snip]
As for usability it came up with gdm, gnome+kde (I prefer KDE but
gdm is good in its own right) and the only applications I installed
were Firefox and Thunderbird though I could have jused used Mozilla
versions of those that were installed and be done with it. First
ken keanon wrote:
Hi,
There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why
Debian should be the preferred choice?
Difficult question. The Debian project is wonderful from many
perspectives, but except on philosophical grounds it's hard to see why
an ordinary desktop user wou
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
[snip]
This is an awesome document. I always have it on my table. I hope you
will find it useful.
http://people.debian.org/~debacle/refcard/refcard-en-a4.pdf
Thanks for this which is extremely helpful, and to all for many other
helpful suggestions. I'm well sorted now.
Chad Davis wrote:
Greetings,
I have a highpoint HPT373 controller and am trying to install Debian.
However I can not get it to read the drives because none of the
kernels have the correct drivers included. How can I deal with this
and get debian installed? What are my options? Any feedback would
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 22:37, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Paul Scott wrote in linux.debian.user:
> > > Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the
> > > /usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will
> > > allow me to read them without having to decompress them first
Hi
Maybe a silly question but nearly all the Debian docs in the
/usr/share/doc tree are in gz format. Is there a viewer that will allow
me to read them without having to decompress them first?
:)
Fish
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On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 11:37, Gary Parker wrote:
[snip]
> When KDE starts I get and error message:
> *** Begin Error message ***
> Sound Server Informational Messsage
> Error while initializing sound driver:
> divice /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permisson Denied)
>
> The sound server will contin
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