Re: debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 02:19, Shobhit Jindal sent this for all our perusal: >---} Just count one more happy debian user! Reinstalled yesterday, to > switch ---} > from x86 sarge to amd64 etch. Everything went flawlessly. Thanks to developers, maintainers, people on this list and everyone wh

Re: VMWare on current kernels (was: debian rocks!)

2007-02-05 Thread Shobhit Jindal
some news myself just installed kernel 2.6.18-4-686 and vmware (vmware-config.pl) was configured without giving the error - no linux/version.h in /usr/src/include/linux not to mention 2.6.18-3-686 and 2.6.18-2-686 did give the error! On 2/5/07, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi

Re: VMWare on current kernels (was: debian rocks!)

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
Take a look here: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=76957&tstart=0 Essentially, vmware in its raw state doesn't compile with relatively newer kernels. You need patches to make them work. You can find these patches at http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware . Once you down

Re: VMWare on current kernels (was: debian rocks!)

2007-02-05 Thread Jan Schledermann
Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi! > > On 2/5/07, Shobhit Jindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2/5/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The only >> > catch ins't debian related: vmware seems to not like my >> > /usr/src/include/linux, and asks for a new linux/version.h. >> >> i have b

Re: VMWare on current kernels (was: debian rocks!)

2007-02-05 Thread Bruno Buys
Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi! On 2/5/07, Shobhit Jindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/5/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only > catch ins't debian related: vmware seems to not like my > /usr/src/include/linux, and asks for a new linux/version.h. i have been stuck to kernel 2

VMWare on current kernels (was: debian rocks!)

2007-02-05 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On 2/5/07, Shobhit Jindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/5/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only > catch ins't debian related: vmware seems to not like my > /usr/src/include/linux, and asks for a new linux/version.h. i have been stuck to kernel 2.6.18-1-686 for the very sam

Re: debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread Shobhit Jindal
a damm happy user here too :) On 2/5/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just count one more happy debian user! Reinstalled yesterday, to switch from x86 sarge to amd64 etch. Everything went flawlessly. Downloaded last netinst, booted it, hardware detected smoothly. The machine has two so

debian rocks!

2007-02-05 Thread Bruno Buys
Just count one more happy debian user! Reinstalled yesterday, to switch from x86 sarge to amd64 etch. Everything went flawlessly. Downloaded last netinst, booted it, hardware detected smoothly. The machine has two sound cards, both worked as before. I chose manual disk editing, reformatted both

Re: debian rocks

2002-12-03 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Yep, it sure does rock. I am a recent convert, from SuSE & Mandrake. Oh, check out Synaptic, it is a most excellent gui front end for all the CLUE apt stuff. No, I am not blond, but I am a bit gui. ;-) *BFN* H :-) There is no such thing as an ugly woman -- there are only the ones w

Re: debian rocks

2002-12-03 Thread Benedict Verheyen
"Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello all, > >I just wanted to say that Debian is really just the distro that i've been >looking for ever since using Redhat two years ago. I still can't believe how >easy it is to configure packa

debian rocks

2002-12-02 Thread Bruce Park
Hello all, I just wanted to say that Debian is really just the distro that i've been looking for ever since using Redhat two years ago. I still can't believe how easy it is to configure packages in Debian thanks to deslect and apt. bp __

semi-OT: debian rocks(solid & stable)

2002-05-24 Thread nate
With my workstation here at work passing 1 year of uptime a few days ago I must say that debian is the most solid OS for either workstation or server that I have used sofar. I'm sure some of it comes from the hardware I choose and the software config. but I am still astounded that this machine has

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-02 Thread jbardin
And Debian Still ROCKS... -Jonbegin:vcard n:Bardin;Jon x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:www.gamesig.com -uniting the linux gaming community x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jon Bardin end:vcard

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:16:08PM +0200, Jason Quigley wrote: > Interesting! > > How does the mailing list get onto USENET? Is there a cross-posting utility > running? I would much prefer to use a news group than downloading all these > messages. > > Cheers, > Jason. i imagine that someone at

RE: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
nce Measat Broadcast Network Systems E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: Keith G. Murphy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 12:57 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: debian r

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Jason Quigley
Interesting! How does the mailing list get onto USENET? Is there a cross-posting utility running? I would much prefer to use a news group than downloading all these messages. Cheers, Jason. --On Tuesday, August 1, 2000 11:57 -0500 "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, "w

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Will Trillich
or at www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Debian-Linux/199/0 (very up-to-date). On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:57:15AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Actually, "we" could have picked it up on www.deja.com/usenet. > > Jason Quigley wrote: > > > > Then of course, the fact that we're reading this means we're a

Re: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Actually, "we" could have picked it up on www.deja.com/usenet. Jason Quigley wrote: > > Then of course, the fact that we're reading this means we're already on the > list :) > > --On Monday, July 31, 2000 9:40 +0800 "CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hear ye..hear y

RE: debian rocks

2000-08-01 Thread Jason Quigley
Then of course, the fact that we're reading this means we're already on the list :) --On Monday, July 31, 2000 9:40 +0800 "CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hear ye..hear ye.you should join this list, then you'll really get a feel of the Linux (and Debian GNU/Linux)

RE: debian rocks

2000-07-31 Thread Michael Soulier
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > Hear ye..hear ye.you should join this list, then you'll really get a > feel of the Linux (and Debian GNU/Linux) community. I did join! :) Mike

RE: debian rocks

2000-07-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Message- > From: Michael Soulier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 1:48 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: debian rocks > > > I have to tell you, the more I use Debian, the more I like > it. It's not the big things. The b

Re: debian rocks

2000-07-28 Thread Simon Michael
amen !

debian rocks

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
I have to tell you, the more I use Debian, the more I like it. It's not the big things. The big thing is that it's Linux. It's the little things. I go hunting for the default vimrc file installed when I grabbed vim. On every *nix system in the world, it's probably in a subdirector

Re: Debian rocks

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:19:28AM -0800, Bart Friederichs wrote: > I have 8M, but the upper 4 are bad. I am just busy installing it now. I > *know* it is the ram that does it ; ). Maybe I will get me more RAM, hope it > is easy to get some 30pins SIMMs. Take a look at http://www.memoryx.com

Re: Debian rocks

2000-03-21 Thread Bart Friederichs
> Debian does indeed rock but the x windows really need more than 4MB > of RAM. I have 8M, but the upper 4 are bad. I am just busy installing it now. I *know* it is the ram that does it ; ). Maybe I will get me more RAM, hope it is easy to get some 30pins SIMMs. > I notice you posted using O

Re: Debian rocks

2000-03-21 Thread Patrick
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:18:09PM -0800, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > Debian rocks! Yeah, only installing it on a 486 with just 4MB of RAM, will > cost you (until now, he still isn't ready) 3 days That is, for the > standard workstation. Ahh, what the heck, as lon

Re: Debian rocks

2000-03-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
I remember having debian running on my 486 SX 33 with 8 Meg in just a few hours (manually selected dselect). Ron On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: > Hi, > > Debian rocks! Yeah, only installing it on a 486 with just 4MB of RAM, will > cost you (until now, he still isn

Debian rocks

2000-03-20 Thread Bart Friederichs
Hi, Debian rocks! Yeah, only installing it on a 486 with just 4MB of RAM, will cost you (until now, he still isn't ready) 3 days That is, for the standard workstation. Ahh, what the heck, as long as it runs, I will be happy. Grzz Bart