Re: Installing Sarge -- Any reason to wait?

2005-05-31 Thread Rick Taylor
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 17:16 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm not worried about more updates. I expect that. I just want to be sure > that it is already being treated like stable -- i.e. I can count on updates > not breaking anything. I've been running it for months. Nothing's broken yet. It see

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Rick Taylor
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 11:11, Ron Johnson > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:37 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 14:10:33 +, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > > One word: Ubuntu > > > > > > www.ubuntulinux.org > > > > > > You could do that with Debian, but why not just use something

Re: xv

2004-12-21 Thread Rick Taylor
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:54, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:09:46PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:39:48AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > > > > I personally would recommend qiv. A wonderful tool for viewing images. > > > Just apt-get it and you

Re: GUI

2004-12-21 Thread Rick Taylor
> Do you have MWM installed already? ls /usr/bin/X11/mwm -- http://www.RTaylor-Design.Com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: only root can start X,

2004-12-21 Thread Rick Taylor
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 04:24, Smith a wrote: > i have installed xserver-svga, but only root can start X, others can't, > error message says wrapper should be used. > > what should i do? thanks! Are you using a display manager? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: GUI

2004-12-21 Thread Rick Taylor
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 02:56, alireza faryar wrote: > I am new to debian. I installed on a 100 MHz dell with > about 82 Meg of RAM and two disks, one is 1 G and the > other is 2 G. I could not install all packages that > come with the distribution CDs. I guess it ran out of > space. Can you recommen

Re: Need help with XF86 config

2004-12-21 Thread Rick Taylor
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 12:35, Andrew Konosky wrote: > After I got the base system installed, I selected "Desktop Environment" > and apt installed both KDE and Gnome, Gnome as default. I switched it > over to KDE and KDM, but the installer didn't set up my graphical config > right. > > My Radeon

Re: Debian native java

2004-12-18 Thread Rick Taylor
On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:00 pm, Rick Taylor wrote: > On Saturday 18 December 2004 05:58 pm, Sam Watkins wrote: > > } I want to use Java. Nowadays, many utilities are released in Java. Big > } monsters that comes to my mind are, eclips, jbuilder, together, IBM db2 > } cont

Re: Debian native java

2004-12-18 Thread Rick Taylor
On Saturday 18 December 2004 05:58 pm, Sam Watkins wrote: } I want to use Java. Nowadays, many utilities are released in Java. Big } monsters that comes to my mind are, eclips, jbuilder, together, IBM db2 } control center, etc. What would be the best/safest java sdk package to use } for such case