Re: opinion - apt-mirror or aptly

2024-04-17 Thread Dan Ritter
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i intend to create a local mirror for debian armhf > it seems apt-mirror and aptly are the applications most used > is one easier, more reliable, ... If all you want is a local mirror, apt-mirror is less configuration. If you want a more complicated system -- fo

Re: opinion - apt-mirror or aptly

2024-04-16 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 05:49:29AM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i intend to create a local mirror for debian armhf > it seems apt-mirror and aptly are the applications most used > is one easier, more reliable, ... Has it to be a mirror, or would a cache do? I'm asking, because a cache i

opinion - apt-mirror or aptly

2024-04-16 Thread fxkl47BF
i intend to create a local mirror for debian armhf it seems apt-mirror and aptly are the applications most used is one easier, more reliable, ...

Please, don't feed the trolls [was: Fwd: [DNG] an AI opinion about systemd]

2022-12-07 Thread tomas
On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 05:13:43PM -0700, Fred wrote: [...] > A good reason to change to Devuan which is Debian without systemd. As a SysV user myself, I'd say: don't feed the trolls. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Fwd: [DNG] an AI opinion about systemd

2022-12-07 Thread Fred
Forwarded Message Subject: [DNG] an AI opinion about systemd Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 20:15:06 +0100 From: Jaromil To: d...@lists.dyne.org dear dng'ers just for fun and to my great surprise, today I asked chatGPT about systemd the oracle AIsplained me... Systemd

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread steef
broadcom chips load nowadays with (allmost) no trouble at all with the broadcom-sta software. reg., steef hamed hosseini schreef: hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or 2)? note:i want best laptop for Debian and Linux OS. 1. Notebook Ideapad Y470 59-303427

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:32:04 +0330, hamed hosseini wrote: > hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or > 2)? If I'm not reading it wrong, configuration #2 is more powerful, I'd go for it :-) There are basically three main differences: - Option #2

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/12/8 hamed hosseini > thank you,but tell me why you choice number 1? > i need to know Debian support Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 1GB and Atheros > AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter or Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Network > Adapter http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA i just prefer ath o

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-07 Thread hamed hosseini
thank you,but tell me why you choice number 1? i need to know Debian support Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 1GB and Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter or Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-07 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/12/7 hamed hosseini > hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or 2)? > > note:i want best laptop for Debian and Linux OS. > > > i'd go with number 1 without the windows OS. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > watches videos it is the vertical pixels that count the most. I would > > hate to purchase a "new" machine with fewer vertical pixels than the > > 1050 in my "old" machine. > > The best you can do is to get a T60/p with a proper BOE-Hydis

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > watches videos it is the vertical pixels that count the most. I would > hate to purchase a "new" machine with fewer vertical pixels than the > 1050 in my "old" machine. The best you can do is to get a T60/p with a proper BOE-Hydis 1600x1200 IPS display (or

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:35:40PM +0200, J.A. de Vries wrote: > (networkanalysis, sniffing, pentesting etc.). The built-in fingerprint reader > isn't supported at the moment, as far as I know. I don't use it anyway, so I had a R61e and could use the fingerprint reader regularly. Regards Johan

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Erwan David
On 22/11/11 21:53, Bob Proulx wrote: > Celejar wrote: >> There are various retailers offering refurbished Thinkpads, >> including the T60/T61, for fairly attractive prices; I'm leaning >> toward grabbing a T61 from Newegg: ... You can also check out >> Geeks.com > > It is just rather discouraging

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Celejar wrote: > There are various retailers offering refurbished Thinkpads, including > the T60/T61, for fairly attractive prices; I'm leaning toward grabbing > a T61 from Newegg: > ... > You can also check out Geeks.com It is just rather discouraging that all of the displays in the newer laptops

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:31:32 +0100 tadziu wrote: > 2011/11/22 Joel Roth > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:34:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Ma, 22 nov 11, 15:12:24, hamed hosseini wrote: > > > > hi > > > > i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux? > > > > > > A T

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Hamed, I've been using a Lenovo Thinkpad T500 for almost two years now. During that time it has never let me down. Even though it has been put to work under relatively hard conditions for a laptop. As far as build quality goes, it isn't the old Thinkpad anymore, but it is still a lot better

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:09:22PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Roth wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > hamed hosseini wrote: > > > > i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux? > > > > > > A ThinkPad :D > > > > Well, with my T410, I'd like to know how to send video > >

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
* tadziu [22 19:33]: > it was great laptop and i was to buy new one made by lenovo but > someone told me that quality of that machines is now past. > anyway i've never worked on new thinkpads so i can't really > tell is that true. > > i'd also like to buy new laptop but i'm looking for a inde

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Erwan David
On 22/11/11 20:31, tadziu wrote: > 2011/11/22 Joel Roth mailto:jo...@pobox.com>> > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:34:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Ma, 22 nov 11, 15:12:24, hamed hosseini wrote: > > > hi > > > i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux? >

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread tadziu
2011/11/22 Joel Roth > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:34:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Ma, 22 nov 11, 15:12:24, hamed hosseini wrote: > > > hi > > > i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux? > > > > A ThinkPad :D > > Well, with my T410, I'd like to know how to send vid

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Roth wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > hamed hosseini wrote: > > > i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux? > > > > A ThinkPad :D > > Well, with my T410, I'd like to know how to send video > to the 15-pin VGA connector for an external display. > > Seems unsupported as

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:34:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 22 nov 11, 15:12:24, hamed hosseini wrote: > > hi > > i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux? > > A ThinkPad :D Well, with my T410, I'd like to know how to send video to the 15-pin VGA connector for an

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 22 nov 11, 15:12:24, hamed hosseini wrote: > hi > i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux? A ThinkPad :D Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc De

best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread hamed hosseini
hi i want buy lenovo laptop,what is best laptop for debian linux?

Re: opinion for debian

2011-03-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM, hamed hosseini wrote: > i need debian for desktop and wed developer and web server and some small > network, > why you choice bsd linux for network? > > > bst over linux? my quote was "serious work with the network stack". by this, i mean if you need to do live ne

Re: opinion for debian

2011-03-14 Thread hamed hosseini
i need debian for desktop and wed developer and web server and some small network, why you choice bsd linux for network? On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:27 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:35 PM, hamed hosseini wrote: > >> i am new in linux >> tell me y

Re: opinion for debian

2011-03-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:35 PM, hamed hosseini wrote: > i am new in linux > tell me your opinion about debian and ubuntu and other linux os? > i think debian is best linux os for all purpose,are you agree with me? i like debian for a general purpose server / dev environment. if

opinion for debian

2011-03-14 Thread hamed hosseini
i am new in linux tell me your opinion about debian and ubuntu and other linux os? i think debian is best linux os for all purpose,are you agree with me?

Re: About my Firewall Settings - I would like an opinion

2008-11-10 Thread Manuel Gomez
Sam Kuper escribió: 2008/11/10 Sam Kuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > By using REJECT instead of DROP, you have no stealth. This means you can be port-scanned to look for weaknesses, e.g. unpatched OpenSSH vulnerabilities, etc. That said, if SSH traffic is blo

Re: About my Firewall Settings - I would like an opinion

2008-11-10 Thread Manuel Gomez
Sam Kuper escribió: 2008/11/10 Sam Kuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > By using REJECT instead of DROP, you have no stealth. This means you can be port-scanned to look for weaknesses, e.g. unpatched OpenSSH vulnerabilities, etc. That said, if SSH traffic is blo

Re: About my Firewall Settings - I would like an opinion

2008-11-10 Thread Manuel Gomez
Sam Kuper escribió: 2008/11/10 Sam Kuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > By using REJECT instead of DROP, you have no stealth. This means you can be port-scanned to look for weaknesses, e.g. unpatched OpenSSH vulnerabilities, etc. That said, if SSH traffic is blo

Re: About my Firewall Settings - I would like an opinion

2008-11-10 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/11/10 Sam Kuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By using REJECT instead of DROP, you have no stealth. This means you can be > port-scanned to look for weaknesses, e.g. unpatched OpenSSH vulnerabilities, > etc. > That said, if SSH traffic is blocked, an OpenSSH vuln. might not be significant. If you're

Re: About my Firewall Settings - I would like an opinion

2008-11-10 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/11/10 Manuel Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, i would like to read opinions about my firewall settings: > I am using Iptables with Shorewall (frontend) and my configuration is: > - Default Policy: REJECT all connections. > - Rules: Allow DNS (my DNS servers), allow http and https connections f

About my Firewall Settings - I would like an opinion

2008-11-10 Thread Manuel Gomez
Hi, i would like to read opinions about my firewall settings: I am using Iptables with Shorewall (frontend) and my configuration is: - Default Policy: REJECT all connections. - Rules: Allow DNS (my DNS servers), allow http and https connections for servers: www.google.es, ... So, nobody

Re: opinion sought: lvm vs. evms

2007-04-20 Thread Bob McGowan
Miles Fidelman wrote: I run a couple of rack-mount servers, each containing 4 fairly large SATA disks. I'm getting ready to rebuild one of the boxes as a development/staging environment. I'm considering using Xen, with an etch Dom0, and wondering what's the best way to manage the underlying

opinion sought: lvm vs. evms

2007-04-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
I run a couple of rack-mount servers, each containing 4 fairly large SATA disks. I'm getting ready to rebuild one of the boxes as a development/staging environment. I'm considering using Xen, with an etch Dom0, and wondering what's the best way to manage the underlying disk space for maximum

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
more those that fail to render correctly when I manually increase the font size.) Thanks to the maintainers of the present site. They do an excellent job! Just my opinion, Johannes NB: This doesn't mean that the pages cannot be improved. I guess one could add to the documentation and introd

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread s. keeling
["Followup-To:" header set to linux.debian.user.] HXC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > HXC wrote: > > I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor > > degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so > > where do I start / who do I contact? > > I also wondered wh

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread Luis Hidalgo
Hi, I personally dislike the colors of this particular website and I like cooler colors. The problem is that, I think this way and many may think alike (or not) but IMHO a color scheme is just too subjective to  ask a person's opinion.-- Luis"All science is either physics or stamp

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread HXC
HXC wrote: I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where do I start / who do I contact? Grtz. HXC I also wondered what the community finds about the colours and layout used for the website Does

hardware probs.: your opinion

2006-01-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, For the likelihood that someone on the list has a better idea than I with what to do: I bought hardware that isn't working right: 1. A wd800jd sata drive hangs in post on the EPoX ep-8vtai motherboard. any ideas of what to do next? Returning merchandise is difficult from where I am prese

Re: Seagate external firewire opinion

2005-10-15 Thread Willie Gnarlson
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:51:24AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2005, Willie Gnarlson wrote: > > Hello lovers of all that is Debian, > Hi there, Willie. Hi, Rogério. > > I am thinking of purchasing an external Seagate USB 2.0 / Firewire > > hard drive for use for backing up the syste

Re: Seagate external firewire opinion

2005-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 15 2005, Willie Gnarlson wrote: > Hello lovers of all that is Debian, Hi there, Willie. > I am thinking of purchasing an external Seagate USB 2.0 / Firewire > hard drive for use for backing up the systems on my LAN Well, I have a similar situation here: I have an IDE drive in an Firewire/

Seagate external firewire opinion

2005-10-14 Thread Willie Gnarlson
Hello lovers of all that is Debian, I am thinking of purchasing an external Seagate USB 2.0 / Firewire hard drive for use for backing up the systems on my LAN (incidentially, I'm looking at http://www.bacula.org/ for doing the backup) . I plan to use it in Firewire mode rather than USB (if that ma

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-19 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/17/05, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > known mailing list to find out what is happening in Debian. But I think > this would be an easy way for the Developers to let us know whats > comming in a short email, instead of having millions of users to scratching > their > heads and googling

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi users of 'unstable' Debian: The included messages was posted to the debian-devel mailing list. It outlines some of the issues with the upcomming transition from gimpprint to gutenprint. I want to know if this kind of messages would be useful to other users of 'unstable' for

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-19 Thread Andrew Nelson
Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi users of 'unstable' Debian: > The included messages was posted to the debian-devel mailing list. It > outlines some of the issues with the upcomming transition from gimpprint > to gutenprint. I want to know if this kind of messages would be useful to > other > users of 'unst

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/07/05 23:24), Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi users of 'unstable' Debian: > The included messages was posted to the debian-devel mailing list. It > outlines some of the issues with the upcomming transition from gimpprint > to gutenprint. I want to know if this kind of messages would be useful to > o

printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi users of 'unstable' Debian: The included messages was posted to the debian-devel mailing list. It outlines some of the issues with the upcomming transition from gimpprint to gutenprint. I want to know if this kind of messages would be useful to other users of 'unstable' for this and other transi

Re: raid performance, your opinion?

2005-07-14 Thread Ugo Bellavance
ore performance, usually from a raid 10. However, if you need to add a disk it is a pain. You can easily add as many disks as you want to a raid5 config. > > I'm guess I'm just looking for your thoughts on what you would do. > > Thanks for you opinion! > > Ch

Re: raid performance, your opinion?

2005-07-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:24:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 4 disks for a software raid configuration. > I'm pondering about using either a 4 disk raid5 array, or > a 4 disk raid10 array. > > I'm interested in speed mostly, but data integrity is important too. > I'm running a web,

raid performance, your opinion?

2005-07-12 Thread michael
e with Raid5, I would get more disk space, plus I would also get 3 disks for stripe with 1 for parity. But with Raid10, I would get less drive space, only 2 disks striped, but get better fault tolerance. I'm guess I'm just looking for your thoughts on what you would do. Thanks for you opini

Mail Services "Opinion"

2004-07-22 Thread Support
Hi! Debian Users Need some info about Mail Server. There are some request from my management about Mail Services.Below are the list. Need your opnion. 1). Must can support multiple domain. I have Domain for abc.com.my and cde.com.my 2). The email user must can be control to become a local user o

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable ( newbie opinion )

2004-04-18 Thread welly hartanto
I'm a very newbie in Linux system but somehow my first love to Linux is via Debian sid...and I found there's nothing difficult. Sometime I mess up my system but...the more trouble we got the more "expert" we're gonna be... Maybe that's not what the common users think. They don't wanna be bother to

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-29 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:47:24PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:10:06 -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > > what's the best imap server for woody? > > I'm asking the same question for the near future, and I already > know what I am looking for: a Po

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-28 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:10:06 -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > what's the best imap server for woody? I'm asking the same question for the near future, and I already know what I am looking for: a PostgreSQL (or something the like) backed mail store. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutr

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:56:07PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I believe courier uses its own format, which is similar to Maildir. But ^^^ > it doesn't store mail in the user's home directory. In fact it bypasses > user accounts entirely. Oops typo, I meant cyrus... Bijan --

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:10:06PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > so we're looking for advice -- as subjective or as objective as > you can make it -- on implementing an imap email server. we've > seen the hype for courier and for cyrus; to proceed > intelligently, we'd like some real-life feedback

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I looked into this a few months ago and went with cyrus. The author of courier claims the IMAP spec is non-sensical, so I didn't really feel like trusting his implementation of it--though many people report good experiences. The University of Washington has one too; I can't recall why I didn't go

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-12-28T04:10:06Z, Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so we're looking for advice -- as subjective or as objective as you can > make it -- on implementing an imap email server. I'm using Cyrus and I love it. I don't have a large installation, but it "feels" very fast. That is, I

opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-27 Thread Will Trillich
so, what's the best imap server for woody? :) my isp has an email system based on openbsd from back in 1995. it's hopelessly outdated and has virtually no upgrade path. we're hoping to implement an upgradeable (hence debian) and dependable (hence debian) and useable (hence the question at hand) em

Re: Opinion

2003-03-28 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:15:04AM +0530, Saurabh Gupta wrote: > > Dear debian USers > My name is Saurabh and I am from India. I need your opinion in one of > the problem i am facing with the Debian. I want to write my own script > which will do network confriguration , instal

Opinion

2003-03-26 Thread Saurabh Gupta
Dear debian USers My name is Saurabh and I am from India. I need your opinion in one of the problem i am facing with the Debian. I want to write my own script which will do network confriguration , install the Os , make partition after the Kernel is loaded. I cannot find the sample scripts or

PRENSA TÉCNICA (Opinion)

2000-01-19 Thread Alicia Benavent
puter Science. Our magazines of OS Linux are the best-sellers in Spain. In this magazines there are a page of opinion. This page is writed by important members from different enterprises, as Roland Dyroff, CEO of SuSE Linux AG. We are interesting about all enterprises can write in this page. If you li

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-14 Thread Urban Gabor
IMHO Texinfo and info is not so bad. I use emacs but read the info files through the program . The main advantage is that anyone can produce very cool printouts, and no need for an overfancy web browser. Installing Linux can be a very big challenge, but I do not want to overstate it. My very first

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-08 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 06:47:50PM -0500, JonesMB wrote: > > Now I am going home to figure out why IP forwarding has stopped > working with 2.2. The "Changes" file distributed with the kernel source tells about this and the new parallel port stuff. -- Ray

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-07 Thread JonesMB
All this reminds me of my printer & Ethernet card woes during the weekend. I decided that I was tired of using Linux with very limited multimedia capabilities. It seemed to reinforce the notion my Windows friends have that Linus is for servers not workstations. I bought a SoundBlaster PCI128

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Just my opinion Date: Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:06:45PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > *- On 6 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Just my opinion" > > Ipswitch wrote: > >> > &g

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-07 Thread Doug Dine
Max, The whole point is that things can work just fine. It does take a little patience and there's lots to learn. When it comes to documentation there is alot available and not just online. The Debian Users Guide is a must and there are many other books available too. Also, the Debain user help

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Just my opinion" > Ipswitch wrote: >> >> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: >> >> > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, >> > >> > You have a bit of a point there.

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:36:34AM +, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have had tried to install SLINK 4 or 5 times without success. > I have printouts of more then 30 HOWTO's but it does not help. > I have had coosen the basic installation for a Workstation but > they do not work whatever I do.

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ipswitch wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: > > > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, > > > > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and > > inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've > > been many adv

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:31:01AM -0400, Ipswitch wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: > > > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, > > > > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and > > inaccurate, mostly because they were written

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
entation > > > is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the installation > > > procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian streetlight. Whatever the > > > advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life has the hundreds > > > of hours obviousl

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Phillip Deackes
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => one of the things that most impressed me about Debian was that => once I'd done the install, pretty much all the services I'd installed => support for were set up and working. With previous distributions, => I'd => always had to spend far too much time figu

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread David Teague
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > > Then again, can you name an OS with better documentation... > VMS. I have USED VMS, extensively, and for many years. VMS documentation is FILLED with buggy examples that leave out details that make thing wo

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Ipswitch
gt; > procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian streetlight. Whatever the > > advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life has the hundreds > > of hours obviously required to make this clunker run. > >Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert I could say

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Ipswitch
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, > > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and > inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've > been many advances since then. Most of the

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:25:22 +1000 , you wrote: >I have just been through this process having decided to switch over from >SuSE to debian. i must say that the install system is fine until dselect >with a multi CD set. The installation procedure clearly shows that Debian's roots are the Internet wit

RE: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
helle Konzack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 6:49 PM To: Carley, Jason (Australia) Subject: [DEBIAN: HELP] RE: Just my opinion At 15:47 06.07.1999 +1000, you wrote: >Michelle, > >At what point does your install fail, and generally what goes wrong? >Approximately w

RE: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 5:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Just my opinion Right, I have had tried to install SLINK 4 or 5 times without success. I have printouts of more then 30 HOWTO's but it does not help. I have had coosen the basic install

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
ut of date, or simply wrong, and the installation >procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian streetlight. Whatever the >advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life has the hundreds >of hours obviously required to make this clunker run. > Just my humble opinion. --

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Dan
u expect, go install Redhat. If you want what you don't expect, install Debian or Slackware. From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Subject: Re: Just my opinion Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 00:04:20 -0500 George: I just wanted t

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread ktb
rt out on something > >like Redhat if you aren't close to being a hacker (and complaining > >definately takes away any possibility of even resembeling a hacker). So I'd > >stop complaining, go buy a nice thick book on Redhat Linux, read it > >carefully, install

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Kent West
George: I just wanted to take a minute to let you know that over the past year I've been subscribed to this list I've developed an opinion about you that whenever I see one of your posts I think, "Finally, here will be some solid knowledge, delivered with tact and grace, from wha

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy
s >changed. > > >>From: Doug Dine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Subject: Re: Just my opinion >>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:50:11 MST >> >> >>My printer works fine. My modem works fine. The docum

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Dan
#x27;ll see if the attitude has changed. From: Doug Dine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Just my opinion Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:50:11 MST My printer works fine. My modem works fine. The documentation has always been right on and t

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > Then again, can you name an OS with better documentation... VMS. Solaris (or at least SunOS 5 years ago). Both have (or at least had) a bookshelf full of documentation. Look, arguing that the documentation isn't as bad as, say Windows', doesn't make

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Doug Dine
of a Linux-type OS may be, no one >with a life has the hundreds of hours obviously required to make this >clunker run. > Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/debiandoug/ ___

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:10:50PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, John Galt wrote: > > > > > Okay, leave. Debian doesn't need you more than you need it. See you when > > you get a clue. > > > > Well, I think THAT kind of comment is just as bad. I have been using > Debian si

RE: Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
I have just been through this process having decided to switch over from SuSE to debian. i must say that the install system is fine until dselect with a multi CD set. I actually reinstalled SuSE and nearly gave up before deciding not be overcome and going ahead and trying. Eventually mount the CD m

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:10:50PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > thing is that the initial installation is important to a newbie because > that is what they are focused on at the start. The fact that it will save > them hours and hours down the road in maintenance once they DO get it set > up is n

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread Steve George
> is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the installation > procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian streetlight. Whatever the > advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life has the hundreds >

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread Brad
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FTI-- After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I have > come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! Interesting opinion. i disagree though. > It won't drive your printer, Drives my printer

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread John Galt
has the hundreds > of hours obviously required to make this clunker run. >Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert > > ___ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, an

Just my opinion

1999-07-05 Thread maxalbert
cedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian streetlight. Whatever the advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life has the hundreds of hours obviously required to make this clunker run. Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert

Motherboard and CPU opinion

1998-03-27 Thread Quan Tran
Hi all, I am thinking about putting a PC together for Debian 2.0. I am looking at FIC motherboards PA-2011 and PA-2012, AMD K6 233. Have anyone tried this? Do you think it'll run Debian OK? I appreciate all your comments. Quan Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: want upgrade opinion, 1->2 PPro 200/256

1997-05-14 Thread Peter Iannarelli
> From: Dan Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: want upgrade opinion, 1->2 PPro 200/256 > Date: Wednesday, May 14, 1997 8:19 AM > > I have a single PPro 200MHz/256k in my system currently (running 2.0.29 > kernel from a bo in

want upgrade opinion, 1->2 PPro 200/256

1997-05-14 Thread Dan Hugo
I have a single PPro 200MHz/256k in my system currently (running 2.0.29 kernel from a bo install about two months ago, no problems). Should I pick up the spare to fill that empty socket on my Tyan motherboard, or is the 256k cache small enough to kill off the performance advantage? I'd rather not

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