Michael B Allen wrote:
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote:
Testing might be the release level you are looking for...
(I found Stable to be just a tad too old for my tastes as a desktop)
Good thing I'm running a headless Internet server :)
Mike
I have 2 pieces of a
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote:
> Testing might be the release level you are looking for...
> (I found Stable to be just a tad too old for my tastes as a desktop)
Good thing I'm running a headless Internet server :)
Mike
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On Tuesday 06 January 2004 11:05 pm, Michael B Allen wrote:
> Personally I never used their services anyway so I could care less. I still
> use RH 7.3 on all my Linux machines (quite a few). The problem I'm faced
> with now is not a feeling of abandonment but finding a boring, stable,
> consistent
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> This was very useful information Derrick. The text mode support for querying,
> updating, and particularly installing packages with apt-* and dpkg is indeed far
> superior to rpm. It was very easy to install postfix-tls (of course c
This was very useful information Derrick. The text mode support for querying,
updating, and particularly installing packages with apt-* and dpkg is indeed far
superior to rpm. It was very easy to install postfix-tls (of course configuration
appears to be another issue entirely :)
Ok. I am well on
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:18:08AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
[...]
| How is support for UTF-8 locales?
I just realized that I forgot to answer this question. I've been using
'en_US.UTF-8' as my locale for some time now. Many applications
handle it very well, though some don't. Particularly
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
| On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra
wrote:
| > Em Ter, 2004-01-06 Ãs 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
| > > What surprises can a RH user expect?
| > the fact that stable is
| > obsolete,
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:14:09PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
| > Back when I used RedHat I always found it to be a pain the way you
| > have to manually track down, and rebuild, package depedencies.
| >
| > | So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more consistent.
| > | Is this true?
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>> > > What surprises can a RH user expect?
>> >
>> >I guess the biggest hurdles would be the text-mode, no-detection
>> > installer (do a system inventory first) and the fact that stable is
>> > obsolete, so one is almost forced
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:14:09 -0500 (EST)
"Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I use debian it sounds like using custom packages is more
> difficult. I'll have to create a file with equivs-contol and then edit
> it. That's not so bad but knowing what to put in it bothers me.
That's a
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:16:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra
> wrote:
> > Em Ter, 2004-01-06 ?s 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
> > > Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3.
> >
> > Don't remember. But I guess you will upgrade
> Back when I used RedHat I always found it to be a pain the way you
> have to manually track down, and rebuild, package depedencies.
>
> | So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more consistent.
> | Is this true?
>
> Debian includes all of its packages in one place, and automatically
> b
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Michael B Allen wrote:
> So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more
> consistent. Is this true? Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3. How is support for
> UTF-8 locales? Etc. What surprises can a RH user expect?
I'm a former RedHat user too (changed back in
Em Ter, 2004-01-06 Ãs 16:16, Colin Watson escreveu:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra
> wrote:
> >
> > Don't remember. But I guess you will upgrade to GLibC 2.4 when you
> > upgrade to testing in order to get Gnome 2.
>
> There's no such thing
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:16PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
> Em Ter, 2004-01-06 às 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
> > Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3.
>
> Don't remember. But I guess you will upgrade to GLibC 2.4 when you
> upgrade to testing in order to get Gnome 2.
Ther
Em Ter, 2004-01-06 Ãs 08:18, Michael B Allen escreveu:
> I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
> for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
> update a package I have to get the source from their latest packages
> and rebuild. So I thought I'd try debi
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:48:38PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> Instead you will use apt (Advanced Package Tracking ?)
Advanced Package Tool.
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:18:08AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I just got a "linode" UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1
| 2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
| for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
|
Michael B Allen wrote:
Hello,
I just got a "linode" UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1
2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
update a package I have to get the source from their
Hello,
I just got a "linode" UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1
2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
update a package I have to get the source from their latest packages
and reb
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