Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> In testing, things break and then it takes a few days (10 or so?) for
> any fix added to sid to percolate down to lenny.
That depends on the severity of the breakage. Packages can be uploaded with
three urgency levels: low, medium and high. low (the default) takes 10
> I came to know that "lenny"
> is almost as stable as "etch" and also it has latest packages. So I
> want to use "lenny" instead of "etch".
> My question is, "I want to install "lenny" from scratch. Is it
> possible that I install a bare minimum system from my "etch" DVD and
> then I install pac
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:32 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
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> arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I am sorry for the email-problem. I just hit 'reply' in evolution and
> > sent it. Now I've become more cauti
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:56:21 +0200
Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Personally, if you have some free harddrive space, or can buy a
> second harddrive, I would install another instance of Etch, and put
> it on Lenny/testing in /etc/apt/sources.list. You can run your
> machine as a dual
On Thursday 07 June 2007 01:05, arijit wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:58 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > I ran testing (etch) for about 4 months before it became stable since I
> > had just bought a new computer with SATA and nVidia GB eth.
> >
> > OTOH, recently here I've seen threads abo
Arijit Sarkar writes:
> On a second thought, "is it possible to mix up some packages from lenny
> into my etch box?" Because, some latest packages are in lenny can be
> useful. like, latest sun-java (in lenny it's latest) will be helpful for
> me. also latest version of media players, openoffice.
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:35:42 +0530
arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:58 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
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>
> > I ran testing (etch) for about 4 months before it became stable
> > since I had just bought a new computer with SATA and nVidia GB eth.
> >
> > OTOH, rece
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:58 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> I ran testing (etch) for about 4 months before it became stable since I
> had just bought a new computer with SATA and nVidia GB eth.
>
> OTOH, recently here I've seen threads about libc6 breaking on lenny.
> That gives one's comput
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:40:04AM +0530, arijit wrote:
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> ok, i'll do that before update.
> I saw in debian-forum, that 'tetsing' is not bad as 'unstable' and
> 'lenny' is usable for regular users now. I can understand that something
> will break sometimes. since I am using
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:18 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Be vary careful. Search the recent archives for content (not thread
> title) mentioning "lenny" or "testing". Read the debian-reference to
> see the difference between sid (unstable), testing (now lenny), and
> stable (now etch). S
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:10:15 +0530
arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am sorry for the email-problem. I just hit 'reply' in evolution and
> sent it. Now I've become more cautious.
Use 'Reply to all'.
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:32:42AM +0530, arijit wrote:
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> I am almost new to debian. I was using ubuntu before but due to crashes
> I switched to debian recently ("etch" is my first debian experience).
> After using etch I found it as the most stable linux OS I have ever
> used.
>
> Recently I
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:22 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> On 6/7/07, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pretty much yes. You might want to replace with 'lenny' instead of
> testing, so that things will be smoother when lenny is released, but
> there is some time for that, I think. :-)
Thank y
On 6/7/07, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 20:16 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
After you've finished the installation, edit your
/etc/apt/sources.list file and make the entries there point to lenny
instead of etch. Follow that up with an aptitude update and an
aptitud
On 6/7/07, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I am almost new to debian. I was using ubuntu before but due to crashes I switched to
debian recently ("etch" is my first debian experience). After using etch I
found it as the most stable linux OS I have ever used.
Recently I was look
2007/6/6, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi all,
I am almost new to debian. I was using ubuntu before but due to crashes I
switched to debian recently ("etch" is my first debian experience). After
using etch I found it as the most stable linux OS I have ever used.
Recently I was looking in the d
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