Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 11:00:34 (+0200), Jochen Spieker wrote: > Kenneth Parker: > > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > > systems, has been going for a while, > > It has been going

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Long Wind
Congratulation! such success story is hardly surprising to me debian has lots of such story if i meet problem, usually i can get help from this list sometimes i can't solve it even after seeking help but debian is still best in my experience On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 1:39:03 PM GMT+8, Ken

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
Kenneth Parker: > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > systems, has been going for a while, It has been going on since at least 2008, so calling these changes "recent" uses a quite fl

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running systems, has been going for a while, and also learning more about the systemd changes. I will also add the Bios to UEFI transition, which the last two

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Congratulations, Kenneth! I’m proud to have been of help! Rick On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have > trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent > Chicken and Eg

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 04:04:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Kenneth Parker writes: > > > Isn't this what this is all about? [...] > Excellent work, and a great result. Thanks for reporting it to us! Seconded. Thanks for the report. That's the spi

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Kenneth Parker writes: > Isn't this what this is all about? I now have a happy Debian user, who > was previously a marginalized Mac user, down on his luck, and unable > to afford the expensive new Macs! > > Now, he is up to date, and able to use Firefox, LibreOffice, and other > Debian Packages,

A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello, I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent Chicken and Egg Issue, helping a friend install Debian 9.4 on an expired MacBook, which Apple states can't run anything later than OSX Lion. The