Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-07 Thread John Hasler
Shaul Karl writes: > What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian venture? Will they > release updates, Corel-potato, make their release larger etc? I haven't the foggiest idea what their plans are. They are very secretive. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisc

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-07 Thread Shaul Karl
> Randy Edwards writes: > > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > > dark side? :-) > > I consider them all new Debian users. What are Corel plans for the future of their Debian ventu

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Randy Edwards writes: > I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support > newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the > dark side? :-) I consider them all new Debian users. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elm

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread Randy Edwards
> actually sounds kinda scary. Flashback to when AOL entered the Internet?! :-) I dunno, I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the dark side? :-) -- Regards,| Debian G

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-05 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: redwar > This ought to be interesting, because as Corel establishes itself I'm redwar >sure we'll be dealing with more and more Corel users here in Debian-User... maybe a good time to unsubscribe ? ;) actually sounds kinda scary. nate ---

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-05 Thread Randy Edwards
Joe Block wrote: > > When I did the install on my friend's laptop, the first thing I did > after corel's install was done was add my local mirror of slink, > security.debian.org, the y2k updates & the XFree86 3.3.5 to its > sources.list and update & upgrade. I went ahead and did a Corel to sli

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joe Block
Randy Edwards wrote: > > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? > > I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in > /etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did > an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've b

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread aphro
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Randy Edwards wrote: redwar >I saw that Corel left the slink entries commented out in redwar >/etc/apt/sources.list and was curious as to what would go on if someone did redwar >an update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I've been playing with the idea of redwar >testing it her

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-11-30 Thread Joey Hess
Randy Edwards wrote: > Has anyone tried taking the freebie Corel Linux install and upgrading it to > slink? That's pretty pointless. Corel linux *is* slink with a very few changes, most of which are upgrades. Thus, there is nothing in slink to upgrade to. Please see http://www.debian.org/News/week