Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

2006-08-14 Thread Peter Stoddard
On Monday 14 August 2006 04:55 pm, Joe Indigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My second question is about the dealer I am leaning towards: > > SW Technology at http://www.swt.com Can anyone provide feedback > > about them? I have purchased a tower and a laptop from them, both with sarge installed

Re: Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

2006-08-14 Thread Hodgins Family
> How can I find out what version number KDE would call this > Debian "kde" package? OR, how could I find out what version > number Debian would call KDE 3.5.4? > > I suspect the same situation exists with other packages, so I'm > hoping for a general procedure I can follow, not simply the > answ

Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

2006-08-14 Thread David J. Bush
Leonid Grinberg told me: | Stable gets old very quickly, but is, like its name implies, | very stable. This led me to wonder, just how far out of date are the Debian packages? For example, I would like to work using KDE. On the KDE website at http://kde.org/ it says that KDE 3.5.4 is the latest

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

2006-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:47:35PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > It's already been mentioned, but putting your own system together is by > far cheaper and more satisfactory. That makes the value judgement that one's time is valueless and that one likes farting around with hardware. I used to

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

2006-08-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David J Bush wrote: I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. But I have a nice soundcard I want to keep from my old system, the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. There is a very helpful page about my card at http://tin

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

2006-08-14 Thread Joe Indigo
On Monday 14 August 2006 20:19, David J Bush wrote: [snip] > My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore > compiled, or will I need to recompile? It would seem so. I'm presently running testing Etch which will become 4.0 when when the next stable release comes out. Modinfo on a stoc

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

2006-08-14 Thread Leonid Grinberg
My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore compiled, or will I need to recompile? I run Debian Etch. Although it is the testing distribution now, it will be the next stable, version 4.0. $ /sbin/modinfo soundcore filename: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

2006-08-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 14 August 2006 20:19, David J Bush wrote: > I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably > after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. Assuming you have a network connection, then it doesn't matter what version of Debian is installed, it almost co