On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:32:37PM -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote:
> Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?)
>
> As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable
> probably needs correcting on your system.
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:11, Bernie Betlach wrote:
> I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I
> install Ubuntu or Debian???
>
> Thanks I appreciate your opinions and advice.
>
> Bernie
Advice:
Create a separate partition for /home ;
If you ever need to re
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:11:55 -0700, Bernie Betlach wrote:
> I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I
> install Ubuntu or Debian???
No doubt: Debian
Reason: I tried Ubuntu, is nice to install, recognised my hardware.
The great and decisive 'but': packages are les
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:11:55AM -0700, Bernie Betlach wrote:
> I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I
> install Ubuntu or Debian???
The main difference between the two is the installer, I
think. Any Linux distribution will give you the same
components: GNOME
Bernie Betlach wrote:
I'm new to
Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I install
Ubuntu or Debian???
I think you can easily go with Debian. It will allow you more freedom
than Ubuntu.
I switched from Window$ directly to Debian and I had no problems wit
On 2005-07-16, Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?)
>
> As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable
> probably needs correcting on your system.
I didn'
On Saturday 16 July 2005 03:59 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:10:18PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> > What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?)
>
> His encoding is ISO-8859-1. I've not figured out how to get
> all ISO-8859-1 characters to display properly when I
On Saturday 16 July 2005 06:15 pm, Mr Mike wrote:
>Well, MAYBE Libranet. I've chatted with a fellow in this
> group that is a libranet tester and he 'swears' it's 100% compatible with
> debian packages... If anyone knows better, let me know before I make
> mistake numero-two-oh..
Libranet uses
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:15:22 -0500
Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, MAYBE Libranet. I've chatted with a fellow in this group that
> is a libranet tester and he 'swears' it's 100% compatible with debian
> packages... If anyone knows better, let me know before I make mistake
> numero-two
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:15:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
[huge snip]
> However, like many Debian based distros, Mepis uses mixed sources that are
> neither Stable, Unstable, or Testing. At one time that didn't mean that much
> to me, but now I really value the dependability of the Stable b
Sebastian P. Luque writes:
> As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable
> probably needs correcting on your system.
I see them here with Gnus, but not in other articles that use double spaces
after periods, such as my own.
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:15:16 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:10 pm, Carl Fink wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> > Yes and no. ?Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian and uses the Sarge installer,
>> > but they use their own packages. ?In Debian
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:10:18PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?)
His encoding is ISO-8859-1. I've not figured out how to get
all ISO-8859-1 characters to display properly when I'm using
UTF-8. Is there any cleverness I'm not aware of?
--
Steph
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?)
As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable
probably needs correcting on your system. I've had similar problems
before, and had to check that the MUA's settings were
On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:10 pm, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > Yes and no. ?Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian and uses the Sarge installer,
> > but they use their own packages. ?In Debian, if you use the Stable
> > (currently Sarge) branch, you get
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Yes and no. ?Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian and uses the Sarge installer, but
> they use their own packages. ?In Debian, if you use the Stable (currently
> Sarge) branch, you get packages that have been tested about as thouroughly as
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:31 am, Alan Ezust wrote:
> I thought Ubuntu was a flavor of debian, so when you install ubuntu, you
> get debian at no extra charge :-)
>
> On 7/16/05, Bernie Betlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should
I thought Ubuntu was a flavor of debian, so when you install ubuntu, you get debian at no extra charge :-)
On 7/16/05, Bernie Betlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm new to Linux but have a
little programming experience. Which should I install Ubuntu or
Debian???
Thanks I
appreciat
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