Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Kevin Traas
> > To all the kind folks > > who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality > > product, thank you. I *must* agree. A year ago, I gave up trying to get a SCO Unix box (3.2v4.2) running all the Internet services I wanted. Every single service I wanted to get running was a complete P

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, System Account (what a cute name!:) wrote: > Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try > the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to > use Bo or Frozen??? Frozen, I think. BTW I always use unstable for this purpose. >

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> > Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try > the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to > use Bo or Frozen??? frozen is actually a symlink currently pointing to bo/ In a couple of days a symlynk "stable" will point to the same directory

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread System Account
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > Just set dselect to point at: frozen non-free contrib Wait!! Hold this upgrade!! Hehe sorry all but i was about to try the upgrade tomorrow but i was going to use bo. What am i suppossed to use Bo or Frozen??? Also i am going to setup a mirro

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote > > Perhaps I didn't set up shadow stuff correctly? I kind of stumbled > upon it: I noticed references to it, and I typed pwconv (which I > recognized from my solaris systems) and things seemed to work pretty > happily (except xlock), so I figured that this was it.

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread stephen farrell
> >--n2rw/3z4jIqBvZU5 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote >> >> Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm >> missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow >> passwords? > >Are you sure you're running the

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, stephen farrell wrote > > Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm > missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow > passwords? Are you sure you're running the latest version from frozen? (i.e. 4.02-1) It's got not problem with my shado

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, Randy Edwards wrote > >I read a fragment of one message somewhere that 1.3 is actually in the > frozen subdirectory; is that true? If I were to make my dselect point at > stable, non-free, contrib, and frozen would that cause the upgrade? Or > should I wait until it's moved from fr

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > > compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind > > folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality > > product, thank you. > >I have to agree. After switching to Linux I'm

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> Just replace stable with frozen in dselect and things should work fine. I > upgraded by ftp over a ppp link (~39 MB) and it went as slick as can be > (it took a few hours of course.) > > After struggling with two Red Hat upgrades and getting a system which > worked but could only be upgraded

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread George Bonser
> > BTW, while I was waiting for the BSDI upgrade, I upgraded my secondary > DNS server (a Debian box). It took about an hour :) I'm still working > on BSDI ... If Software in the Public Interest charged big bucks for Debian support, Debian might be a bear to install too ;) It is probably jus

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread stephen farrell
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just replace stable with frozen in dselect and things should work fine. I Hm... I've found (so far...) on rather important flaw. Perhaps I'm missing it, but it appears that xlockmore doesn't know about shadow passwords? --sf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > > compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind > > folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality > > product, thank you. > >I have to agree. After switching to Linux I'm constantly impressed > with everythi

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > BTW, while I was waiting for the BSDI upgrade, I upgraded my secondary > DNS server (a Debian box). It took about an hour :) I'm still working > on BSDI ... You get what you pay for :-) Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread stephen farrell
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >And, speaking of that, can I ask a stupid question? Okay. > What/where/when is Debian 1.3 going to be released? I'm using 1.2, > getting upgrades through the net with dselect in its default setup > pointing at debian.org and the stable, non-free, an

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Jim Pick
>And, speaking of that, can I ask a stupid question? Okay. > What/where/when is Debian 1.3 going to be released? I'm using 1.2, > getting upgrades through the net with dselect in its default setup > pointing at debian.org and the stable, non-free, and contrib > subdirectories. > >I read

Re: Debian quality

1997-06-01 Thread Randy Edwards
> compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind > folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality > product, thank you. I have to agree. After switching to Linux I'm constantly impressed with everything about Debian (I ran SLS and then Slackware before).