OT: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-13 Thread Brad R
created by VMWare sometime. Thanks again for your help. I'm sure I'll be posting more questions soon. Brad R. -Original Message- From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 4:17 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Hello and 1

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-13 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 3:32 am, Friday, October 12 2001, Robert L. Harris mumbled: > Debian has 3 distrubitions I guess you'd say. > > The current "stable" distribution of Debian Linux (gnu/linux) is named Potato. > The current "testing, soon to be stable" distribution is named Woody. At > some > point in the fut

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-12 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Brad R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyways, here's my first question. I've heard Woody mentioned several times > now and I thought it was a seperate distribution of Debian. Now, I've begun > hearing about upgrading? to it. Where would I find out how to do that? > Just point me in the right dir

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:29:39PM -0400, Brad R wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Forgive me if my first several questions sound stupid, I've just begun with > Linux and have tried to learn what I can, but there is so much to learn. > I'm familiar with Unix protocols on the wire, but have never worked

Re: Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Robert L. Harris
Debian has 3 distrubitions I guess you'd say. The current "stable" distribution of Debian Linux (gnu/linux) is named Potato. The current "testing, soon to be stable" distribution is named Woody. At some point in the future Woody will replace Potato as stable and a new unstable will be named (

Hello and 1st Question

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
Hello everyone. Forgive me if my first several questions sound stupid, I've just begun with Linux and have tried to learn what I can, but there is so much to learn. I'm familiar with Unix protocols on the wire, but have never worked directly with the OS before a couple months ago. Microsoft has f