Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 03:19 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 22 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. > > You're welcome, Hans. > > > It's a P-III 1ghz, 256MB ram, so I don't want to loaded with a too heavy > > distro... > > Your notebook seems to be as po

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 22 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. You're welcome, Hans. > It's a P-III 1ghz, 256MB ram, so I don't want to loaded with a too heavy > distro... Your notebook seems to be as powerful as my desktop and that's because I upgraded its processor in the pa

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jonathan Kaye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050621 23:09]: > I don't mean to highhack the thread. Just a quick question. I don't > recall any recent upgrades to Alsa (I'm tracking "testing" i.e. Etch). > Could either of you let me know the alsa packages that got upgraded and > their version numbers so I c

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Rogério Brito ha escrit, a 22/06/05 05:21: > On Jun 21 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > >>Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? > > > It's working quite nicely here and the recent upgrades to ALSA, to debconf, > to some Gnome libraries (coming from the 2.10 bra

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:21 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. > > The notebook will be my primary work horse. I haven't used Debian much > as a desktop, except on older PC with more minimalistic window managers, > but having seen a fair bit of Sarge, and bei

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Hans du Plooy
Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. The notebook will be my primary work horse. I haven't used Debian much as a desktop, except on older PC with more minimalistic window managers, but having seen a fair bit of Sarge, and being totally hooked on apt-get install, I have decided to put that o

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 21 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? It's working quite nicely here and the recent upgrades to ALSA, to debconf, to some Gnome libraries (coming from the 2.10 branch, I think), easytag 1.99.5 and the availability of gcc-4.0 e

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Peter J Ross
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:52:12PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? So far it's been very similar to Sarge. I've noticed a change in the default version of bash, a minor upgrade for ALSA, and the inclusion of gcc4.0

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Hans du Plooy ha escrit, a 21/06/05 17:52: > Hi guys, > > Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? > > I'm getting my notebook back tomorrow, wondering what to put on it - > shall I put on sid and live on the edge or try the etch? > > Thanks > > -- > Kind Re

Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, Just wondering, anyone running Etch, what are your experiences so far? I'm getting my notebook back tomorrow, wondering what to put on it - shall I put on sid and live on the edge or try the etch? Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com