Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:55:25PM +0100, ??. wrote: > Quoth Depo Catcher: > > Say I want > > to apply all the security patches [or to get all updates] for my version, > > is there an easy way to do that? > > Debian stable is already very secure, the mainta

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Depo Catcher: > During install there is an option to install to encrypted disk which is > pretty sweet sounding. > How does that work, I'm assuming everything but /boot is encrypted? Does > it use GELI or something else? I'll go down that road soon, too. I'm still on unencrypted fs' but

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Depo Catcher wrote: I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my workstation to Debian. Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. Few questions I have: During install there is an option to install to

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Sam Leon
Depo Catcher wrote: > > I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my > workstation to Debian. > Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use > (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. > > Few questions I have: > > During install there is an option to

Re: few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 02:58:36PM +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: > i've switched to opensource ati drivers as proprietary ones are broken > in sid (conflicts with xorg 7.1). whatever... > > but you didn't answer ? is aiglx now part of debian ? will there be a > compiz package soon ? > > I didn'

Re: few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-24 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
i've switched to opensource ati drivers as proprietary ones are broken in sid (conflicts with xorg 7.1). whatever... but you didn't answer ? is aiglx now part of debian ? will there be a compiz package soon ? I didn't find the answer to this question with google so I'm asking here. thanks --

Re: few questions about xorg 7.1

2006-09-22 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx AIGLX only supported open source ATI and Intel drivers + new Nvidia drivers 1.0-9* are supported В Чтв, 21/09/2006 в 23:33 +0200, Nicoco Kinlidex пишет: > Hi everyone ! > > I've noticed that Xorg 7.1 is now in sid. > > I'm using ATI's propriet

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
* Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-29 12:10:54]: > Hello Debian User, > > Q1: > I am using GNOME and Debian woody updated from unstable distro. When I > right click on the date and time (displayed at the right-top of the > GNOME) I got error: > > "Failed to locate a program for conf

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:53:16 -0700 Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Failed to locate a program for configuring the date > >and time. Perhaps none is installed?" > > > >What kind of program should I install? > > Maybe ntp-simple would do it. > Try tzconfig. Regards, David. -- To

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Miller
>"Failed to locate a program for configuring the date >and time. Perhaps none is installed?" > >What kind of program should I install? Maybe ntp-simple would do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Few Questions From a New Debian User

2002-02-20 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi, > 1. What is the user base targeted? Is it simply geared towards the > home-user looking for a free OS? Or is it geared more towards the > power-user? Definately more power user oriented. While my opinion may not be popular on here, I would probably recommend going with Mandrake Linux 8.1

Re: Few Questions From a New Debian User

2002-02-20 Thread jeff
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:18 am, Francis Pineda wrote: > Greetings Debian Community! > > I am currently a computer networking student researching > different flavours of Unix/Linux. From the advice of my > instructor, I have shosen to research Debian. He says > it's, "Really Cool" I find

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-03 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth M G Berberich, > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) eval `/usr/bin/lesspipe` less filename.deb is one way... cheers, d

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hello, > > I have a few questions about Debian-packages: > > - Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) > More then one. For example: dpkg-deb -c > - If I build a debian-package for

Re: few questions about .deb

2001-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
M G Berberich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- Is there an easy way (not ar+tar) to see what files a package will > install bevor it is installed? (after install 'dpkg -L' will do it) Yes, 'dpkg -c foo.deb' (--contents). 'dpkg -I foo.deb' (--info) shows you some other information about the package.

Re: Few Questions

1998-05-19 Thread Carlos Horny
At 16:18 17/05/1998 -0500, Pete Poff wrote: >1. How do you tell how much disk space you have left? > >2. Does anyone know how to use the gdb to tell what caused a program to >crash? > 1. Just type `df' at the command prompt. 2. If the program is one you created, compile it with the -g option and

Re: Few Questions

1998-05-17 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > 1. How do you tell how much disk space you have left? Just checked and the -k flag seems to be the default under linux - at least in RH5. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Few Questions

1998-05-17 Thread Stuart Krivis
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Pete Poff wrote: > 1. How do you tell how much disk space you have left? df df -k for a more readable output. -- Stuart Krivis[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: few questions

1997-11-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: > I have couple of questions: > > 1. I tried to install xirc, but dselect complained that it requires qt1, > which is not available. What is qt1 and where can I find it? > > 2. Anyone knows where I can find a program called pftp? Both of these are still i

Re: few questions

1997-11-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> 4. Is there a way to use gcc on my linux to compile programs which will run > on unix with SUN-OS 5.5? There is no compiler installed on my uni server, > and I want to run some my programs on it. Install gcc on your SUN-OS 5.5 (Solaris 2.5). There are precompiled packages at http://smc.vnet.net/

Re: few questions

1997-11-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: > I have couple of questions: I only have one answer. > 1. I tried to install xirc, but dselect complained that it requires qt1, > which is not available. What is qt1 and where can I find it? It's still in incoming. You might want to try zircon in the mean