my 2 bits worth!
(an' that tells my age!!!) i most whole heartedly agree that this mailing
list is most usefull, and quite slow to shoot at the questioner for their
audacity to not already know the answer (or where/how to find it!) my
experience here is that everyone acts like a responsible adu
"Friendly" can often be harshing on someone in a helpful manner ratehr
than ignoring them. I for one would much rather be called the worst name
in the universe and helped than be treated with kid gloves and continue to
have the problem. I have noticed that there is a lot of harshing in the
debia
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:30 am, Timeboy wrote:
> And i agree with you. This is the friendliest newsgroup that i know.
>
Try the KDE newsgroups. I haven't found anything friendlier. The Debian ones
are pretty good too, but especially among the developers over there, there
just aren't the mass
On Monday Aug 27, 23:48 Ross Burton wrote:
>I'm glad I've got the correct list!
>
>You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake
>posse... :-)
Yes this can be possible. If i made my first experiences with Linux,
i used a german newsgroup. Most of people there used Suse. And it
On Monday 27 August 2001 02:48 pm, Ross Burton wrote:
> You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake
> posse... :-)
>
Man... if we're more friendly then I'd really be scared of the
RedHat/Mandrake people... have you checked out debian-devel? Scary!
- David Nusinow
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:48:30PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2001 23:34:47 +, Timeboy wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Use #dselect! It's a great tool! And can also manage the dependancies.
>
> I agree - I'd heard of dselect before I installed Debian so was saved by
> using it. I was jus
On 27 Aug 2001 23:34:47 +, Timeboy wrote:
[snip]
> Use #dselect! It's a great tool! And can also manage the dependancies.
I agree - I'd heard of dselect before I installed Debian so was saved by
using it. I was just wondering if there was another way of checking the
dependancies.
I'm glad
On Monday Aug 27, 22:21 Ross Burton wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many
>years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of
>questions:
>
>1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically, I
>want to check that
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