Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-07 Thread Rino Mardo
my 2cents. - Original Message - From: "Peter Hugosson-Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:22 PM Subject: Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is list for d

Re: Debian chicken thread crashes mailer

2000-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:05:19PM +, Pollywog wrote: >> What was in that "Debian chicken" thread anyway? It kept crashing XFMail. >> I am a vegetarian, but I didn't know XFMail was too ;) > >One of the people

Re: Debian chicken thread crashes mailer

2000-10-06 Thread Chris Gray
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 04:05:19PM +, Pollywog wrote: > What was in that "Debian chicken" thread anyway? It kept crashing XFMail. > I am a vegetarian, but I didn't know XFMail was too ;) One of the people in it was using ODP: instead of Re: in his subject lines. Th

Debian chicken thread crashes mailer

2000-10-06 Thread Pollywog
What was in that "Debian chicken" thread anyway? It kept crashing XFMail. I am a vegetarian, but I didn't know XFMail was too ;) -- Andrew

Re: Debian chicken

2000-10-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jason Quigley wrote: > --On Thursday, October 5, 2000 11:22 am +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, > > and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, > > but > > Tryi

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-06 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:10:07PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > There are those who would have you believe that Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > > > takers? > > > > > > > > > > hmmm ...

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread John Travis
> > Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all. > > > > On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster. > > I suppose that would go with woody. LOL ... who says Debian users aren't funny ;-). jt -- Debian GNU/Linux [Woody] 2.4.0-test8-ReiserFS Storm {Hail} You mean there

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > > takers? > > > > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > > chicken! I kinda like i

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread John Bagdanoff
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:51:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > things are more like they used to be than they are now. > > Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here. > > Not to mention why we cross the road. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Keith G. Murphy
George Bonser wrote: > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > takers? > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, > wing/flipper over each others shoulder!

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Jason Quigley
--On Thursday, October 5, 2000 11:22 am +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but Trying to install an OS - any OS - for

Re: ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Carl Fink wrote: > This is an unfair characterization. The criticism isn't that the > Debian installer doesn't have graphics. The criticism is that the > choices are both obscure and remarkably confusing in spots. Actually, I'm done criticizing Debian - I now know it's only meant for Linux gur

Re: ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

2000-10-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I expect from any Linux distribution (not just Linux as OS - you > mixed up distributions with systems) to be "easy to mantain and > update" so Debian it's my preffered choice. And I can "pay" very > small price for installatio

ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

2000-10-05 Thread Mariusz . Przygodzki
> Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, > and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but > I am lured by the idea of an OS that is rock-stable and easy to maintain and > update. If only it were easy to install, then Billy boy (n

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
dy for pointing me at a good article, and to make a serious suggestion about a t-shirt design. We geeks like cool t-shirts, and the fact that the Debian chicken is such a long-lived animal suggests to me that he deserves to be immortalized for posterity. If I could draw, I wouldn't be asking

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )

2000-10-05 Thread George Bonser
> > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > takers? > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool!

ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )

2000-10-05 Thread Mariusz . Przygodzki
ść- Od: Peter Hugosson-Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wysłano: 5 października 2000 10:45 Do: debian-user@lists.debian.org Temat: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation) Randy Edwards wrote: >Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at >

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread George Bonser
> things are more like they used to be than they are now. Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here.

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:45:24AM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur." there are exceptions. -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/

Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Randy Edwards wrote: >Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at > ? >Anyone else have any thoughts on this article? Thanks for the pointer, Randy! It was so refreshing to know that I'm not alone in my Debi