Re: Progeny Debian

2001-08-28 Thread Harold Bibik
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:29:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled > Alright. Now I am down to thinking progeny would be the best to nab. But > here is what I don't know yet... > > Are the downloads upgrades free from their servers? > Does anyone have any experience upg

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:29:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alright. Now I am down to thinking progeny would be the best to nab. > But here is what I don't know yet... > > Are the downloads upgrades free from their servers? I believe so, and would be surprised if they weren't (most of t

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Kamil Kisiel
I installed Progeny on my system (to simplify the installation procedure) and then upgraded it to Woody soon after without any problem, all it took is modifying my sources.list and doing an "apt-get dist-upgrade". So far, after more than a month of use I have not seen any problems arise from thi

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-08-27 Thread DanSV
In a message dated 8/27/01 2:45:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: work I use potato on my servers and woody on my workstation.  But, at home I decided to try out Progeny.  It's a nice distrobution, and yes the updates are free.  It uses Grub instead of lilo, and when you

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Wayne Sitton
At work I use potato on my servers and woody on my workstation. But, at home I decided to try out Progeny. It's a nice distrobution, and yes the updates are free. It uses Grub instead of lilo, and when you update it also updates to the the current kernel that progeny is using. At work I manu

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-12 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 23:53, Rob VanFleet wrote: > quotes. Normally, yes I do trim quotes. This particular time, I was > lazy. I can certainly relate to that. Occasionally my grump quotient spikes for no good reason. Sorry. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~bu

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:11:41PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. > > > > Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:52:44PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. > > Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to trim quotes? Oh no, another flamewar in the making :

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 19:37, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. Good grief, Rob. Didn't anyone ever teach you how to trim quotes? -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too mu

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Did you file a bug report with them? It's the least you could do. -Rob On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:55:10PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > i tried it. here's a message i sent to my lug. > > "alright, i gave it a shot. i repeal my defense of progeny. > > wanna know how to break a progeny in

Re: Progeny Debian

2001-04-10 Thread Forrest English
i tried it. here's a message i sent to my lug. "alright, i gave it a shot. i repeal my defense of progeny. wanna know how to break a progeny install, even one from scratch really fast? uncheck installing gnome. tell it you don't want sawfish... boom. dependancy hell, which i tried for

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:07:40AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Same from me. For historical and reality reasons, progeny is as much > part of debian as debian itself. Lets not forget that the > accomplishments of Progeny become available to Debian. And we all serve > the same community: Human

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Same from me. For historical and reality reasons, progeny is as much part of debian as debian itself. Lets not forget that the accomplishments of Progeny become available to Debian. And we all serve the same community: Humanity. Please continue posting. Antonio R. Chris Howells wrote: > > From: J

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-10 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > As far as I am concerned and as far as I know, progeny is as debian as > any other one. Ah, the good "Inside we're all the same" applied to (Debian-based) Linux distributions. Right on! Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosen

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-10 Thread Chris Howells
From: Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We thought that this would be something that Debian people generally > would be interested in, which is why we posted it. If you would > rather not, then that's fine; we won't bother you all on the lists > anymore. I don't consider it to be spam. If it wa

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:13:42 -0500 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Media Contact: > > > Aaron Stenhoff > > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > >

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? > >We thought that this would be something that Debian people generally >would be interested in, which i

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Nathan Dabney
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:30:52PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Media Contact: > > > Aaron Stenhoff > > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
As far as I am concerned and as far as I know, progeny is as debian as any other one. Charles Lewis wrote: > > I for one, do not consider announcements regarding Progeny to be spam. I > applaud Progeny for the contributions they are making to Debian and I > consider announcements such as this to

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > Media Contact: > > Aaron Stenhoff > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? We thought that

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Charles Lewis
I for one, do not consider announcements regarding Progeny to be spam. I applaud Progeny for the contributions they are making to Debian and I consider announcements such as this to be equivalent to announcements of potato or woody being released. -- Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 817-556-4720

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:13:42 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to >any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now. You desparately need to get your irony/tongue-in-cheek detector adjusted. Greetings Marc -

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released *vote?*

2001-04-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
<>If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to <>any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now. I would appreciate it if you would continue the posts. About the public repository, WOW! Thanks and I wish you continued success. tatah -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TE

RE: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
> Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > Media Contact: > > Aaron Stenhoff > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? > > Wichert. This is from http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ -

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Makholm
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you don't ever want announcements from Progeny on any subject posted to > any Debian mailing list ever again, speak up now. And then I didn't write my oppinion on the subject. I have no problem giving Progeny a 100% reduce for sending Debian-relat

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread ktb
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:13:42AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Media Contact: > > > Aaron Stenhoff > > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > Media Contact: > > Aaron Stenhoff > > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? Just out of curi

Re: Progeny Debian 1.0 released

2001-04-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > Media Contact: > Aaron Stenhoff > Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. > (317) 833-0313 (ext. 137) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, do we get $1k for posting an advertisement now? Wichert. -- / Generally uni