Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:40:30PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > since others seem not to like it i suppose i should point out that it > was > the best cd i ever got for debian 2.1. i got a few others from other > sources and none worked as reliabliy as the one from oreilly. worked > perfectly every

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Tom Schuetz wrote: > > Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of the > CDs that come with "Learning GNU/Linux"? > > I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. since others seem not to like it i suppose i should point out that it was the

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Ray Percival
It was a hacked kernel that VA put together. This is the only O'Reilly book I've ever been sorry for buying. Read the online version buy Running Linux and get a cd from someplace else. -- Original Message -- From: "Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Frozen
Eric Richardson wrote: > Tom Schuetz wrote: > > > > Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of > > the CDs that come with "Learning GNU/Linux"? > > > > I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. > > I read a review on the o'reilly site th

Re: The OReilly Book distro

2001-01-09 Thread Eric Richardson
Tom Schuetz wrote: > > Has anybody else had a particularly hard time getting Xf86 running off of the > CDs that come with "Learning GNU/Linux"? > > I saw some comment about this version being a mixed bag of versions. I read a review on the o'reilly site that said this version was not so good -