I like Mandrake, its not too simplified, its a bitch when you want to add extra
partitions, and diskdrakes a bitch.
-- DM.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:36:25 +1100 bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 02:23, Gary Turner wrote:
> Jimbo De La Fuente wrote:
> >Hi
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 02:23, Gary Turner wrote:
> Jimbo De La Fuente wrote:
> >Hi List,
> >
> >I've been using RedHat for a couple of years. Now, as a result of their
> >change in EOL (only untill the end of year for the latest release RedHat
> >8.0) I want to switch to another distro. My preference g
Jimbo De La Fuente wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>I've been using RedHat for a couple of years. Now, as a result of their
>change in EOL (only untill the end of year for the latest release RedHat
>8.0) I want to switch to another distro. My preference goes to Debian. I do
>have some doubts before really s
I guess somehow my story needs to be told.
heh, have to vent somewhere!
I bought QUE's "IdiotGuide" in 1998, QuE;s "Using
Linux" in 2000, ACP's 'PocketBook' in 2001
and ACP's "Advanced PocketBook" in 2002.
All of these came with various distros of
Caldera,Redhat,OpenLinux,Mandrake,SuSe and Debian
on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
What are the experiences other people have with migrating from RedHat
to Debian. Are there any other options as a distro (I'm looking for a
distro with security written in bold)?
I made the switch a
on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> How long are Debian-releases supported (okay, with 'open' software you
> can compile/write your own upgrades but that's not an option)?
A given named release is supported until the second subsequent relea
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:20:23AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote:
>
> > How long are Debian-releases supported
>
> Depends, but looking at the Debian news page, 2.2 (potato) was released
> back on [15 Aug 2000]. There were se
tallison writes:
> stable comes less than once a year from my limited experience. But I
> think you can still get packages from some very old releases. But I do
> not know if they are actually maintained for security updates and such (I
> suspect not).
Potato (the Stable release before Woody, th
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 00:44, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote:
> I've been using RedHat for a couple of years. Now, as a result of their
> change in EOL (only untill the end of year for the latest release RedHat
> 8.0) I want to switch to another distro. My preference goes to Debian. I do
> have some do
> Hi List,
> How long are Debian-releases supported (okay, with 'open' software you
> can compile/write your own upgrades but that's not an option)?
http://www.debian.org/releases/
Debian only has one version, stable... sort of...
Think of Debian as one version that is periodically rolling fro
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote:
> How long are Debian-releases supported
Depends, but looking at the Debian news page, 2.2 (potato) was released
back on [15 Aug 2000]. There were several updates (7) to it. It was
then finally replaced by 3.0 (woody) on [19 J
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote:
> How long are Debian-releases supported (okay, with 'open' software you can
> compile/write your own upgrades but that's not an option)?
Typically until the next release plus six months or so. It depends
entirely on how long th
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