Andrew Dixon wrote:
> HI All,
>
> I have a question on the go-gnome debate. Is there
> any advantage to using:
>
> #go-gnome
>
> as opposed to:
>
> #apt-get install task-helix-gnome
The advantage with go-gnome is only for _real_ newbies, who haven't
yet learned how to use an editor, or
HI All,
I have a question on the go-gnome debate. Is there
any advantage to using:
#go-gnome
as opposed to:
#apt-get install task-helix-gnome
I tried out helix-gnome using apt-get, setting up the
sources.list file as described on helix-code's website
and found it to work well this way
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:53:48AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > > $ lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ > /usr/bin/go-gnome
>
>
>
> > but then again you should not run lynx as root!
>
> Actually, the root login comes later down in my suggestion ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l /usr
I know I said it's time to close this thread, but Ethan came up with
some good points, so I'll just answer them, and (hopefully) be done.
Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:48:19AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps a better description of how to use go-gnome might
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:48:19AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Perhaps a better description of how to use go-gnome might look a bit
> like this (just guessing - please don't try this unless Ethan says
> it is OK!):
>
> $ lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ > /usr/bin/go-gnome
don't put
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:04:52PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > That depends on whether you consider you can trust helixcode or
> > not. "arbitrary" to me means "selected at random", but that might
> > just be my bad English, I suppose.
>
> Actually, 'arbi
Pardon me, but the question isn't whether Debian supports newbies,
it's how Debian supports newbies, people who acquire Debian without local
support available for love nor money.
They're out there. You see more and more clueless pleas on all
Linux lists, and they will learn, but dev
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:25:48PM -0500, David Zoll wrote:
>
>
> Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> [snip]
> > Sarcasm noted. What you really mean is "Debian is not for newbies".
> > Well we all know that. I happen to have discovered that this might no
> > longer be the case...
>
> Debian is very m
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:04:52PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> That depends on whether you consider you can trust helixcode or not.
> "arbitrary" to me means "selected at random", but that might just be
> my bad English, I suppose.
read my original message, trusting helix is a very sm
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
[snip]
> Sarcasm noted. What you really mean is "Debian is not for newbies".
> Well we all know that. I happen to have discovered that this might no
> longer be the case...
Debian is very much for newbies, I've set up a friend with Debian &
Helix GNOME, and he really
Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:33:45PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > teaching newbies how to run arbitrary code as root on there
> > > machine without having the slightest idea what it is going
> > > to do is a bad idea. the fact tha
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:33:45PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > teaching newbies how to run arbitrary code as root on there machine
> > without having the slightest idea what it is going to do is a bad
> > idea. the fact that this is targeted at newbies makes it
Ethan Benson wrote:
> teaching newbies how to run arbitrary code as root on there machine
> without having the slightest idea what it is going to do is a bad
> idea. the fact that this is targeted at newbies makes it WORSE.
Well I'm certainly not advocating the above. All my suggestion did
was
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:25:17AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
>
> Whoa, Ethan! This part was clearly marked as of interest for newbies
> only. Yes, all your points are valid, but the key question here is "Do
teaching newbies how to run arbitrary code as root on there machine
without ha
Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:17:17PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller
> wrote:
>
> > sounds interesting to any other newbies, just do the following:
> >
> > $su
> > Password:
> > lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
>
> this is the most horrifying thing i have ever seen suggeste
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