On Thursday 11 October 2001 02:06, Wayne Brown wrote:
> on 10th Oct Royce Bell wrote
>
>
> > Sheesh, you guys are scaring the pants off me! Or, maybe I'm
> > just getting
> > to old to go about things like I did 30 years ago...hmmm?
> IMHO Mandrake 8.0 would be a good starter for ease of conf
tony, wayne:
as promised, here are the files which you would need to update for adsl usage
1) /etc/resolv.conf
2) /etc/network/interfaces
3) firewall scripts - i am not fimilar with the way debian does this as this
machine is behind a firewall already
1) contains the nameservers and related
I was just pointing out that Earthlink DSL uses pppoe and that the pppoe
packages in stable and testing work with Earthlink's DSL service.
Tony
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:29:47PM -0700, Allen Wayne Best wrote:
> tony, wayne:
>
> for what it's worth, adsl is, imo, much easier than ppp(oe).
tony, wayne:
for what it's worth, adsl is, imo, much easier than ppp(oe). basically, set
up your workstation just like it's on a local network. i will have to look at
my debian machine at work to give you the exact files to place your ip
information. once you have that, you are home free.
i am
Actually, I got Earthlink/DSL to work with the pppoe distributed with
2.2r3 (potato) and the testing (woody) distributions using the standard
2.2.19pre17 kernel that installed from the CD.
Tony
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:06:50PM +0100, Wayne Brown wrote:
> on 10th Oct Royce Bell wrote
>
> > She
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Royce Bell" writes:
> Am I correct in understanding Libranet IS Debian with simplified
> installation/management?
See also: http://www.libranet.com/faq.html
> Are there benefits to the Debian distro directly, and what are they?
Possible reduction in the number
on 10th Oct Royce Bell wrote
> Sheesh, you guys are scaring the pants off me! Or, maybe I'm
> just getting
> to old to go about things like I did 30 years ago...hmmm?
> Actually, I'm not
> so scared as I am overwhelmed at how much I have forgotten
> over the years of
> DOS/Windows immersion
Well, I have installed and used Libranet for a while and I think it is a
great distro, it is focused on the deskto, easy to install and very easy
to configure... It has a lot of winwow managers, it has Gnome and KDE
preconfigured, lots of apps... I think it is great for a newcomer... I
would not us
Sheesh, you guys are scaring the pants off me! Or, maybe I'm just getting
to old to go about things like I did 30 years ago...hmmm? Actually, I'm not
so scared as I am overwhelmed at how much I have forgotten over the years of
DOS/Windows immersion (I'd transliterate that as "baptism," but the
sc
On approximately Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:11:43AM -0600, John Purser wrote:
> If you've got the bucks or the bandwidth then you might want to get a few
> sets of CD's and have a little install party once a month or so. Use a
> distro for a while, talk to the people on each mailing list, then a mon
--- Royce Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't particularly want to go back to
> the command line, but I do
> appreciate the minimalist approach of Unix,
> especially from a security
> standpoint.
>
> Any suggestions to ease the mind and grease the
> process?
I'm using Red-Hat at work (work
Royce Bell wrote:
>
> Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my
> experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the
> interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating and
> infuriating marriage of convenience and productivity-en
* P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.09 16:05:56+0100]:
> In my case, I used a few distros, found that I was nowhere near the
> level of expertise where any distro would be a limitation and chose
> Debian because I like the idea of a volunteer community with its
> free software commitment and its
I'm was in a similar position a year or so back. I used Red Hat for a while
and I must say the install for Red Hat 7.1 is lovely! Now I'm using Debian
Woody and am unlikely to go back. I think the Debian "philosophy" (for want
of a better word) suits me better. As a new user I feel that there i
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:53:10AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote:
>Debian Linux was recommended to me by a friend, but (this is embarrassing to
>admit, as I feel like a newbie all over again) quite frankly, I'm
>confusingly overwhelmed at the different products now available. Debian,
>RedHat, etc. Ever
> Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my
> experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the
> interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating
and
> infuriating marriage of convenience and productivity-enslavement.
>
> Debia
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