Re: slink and potato

1999-11-11 Thread Sean Johnson
slink: to move in a quiet, furtive manner; to sneak potato: a plant, Solarnum Tuberosum, native to South America and widely cultivated for its starchy, edible tubers. "Randy M.Kaplan" wrote: > > Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato? > > Thanks, > > Randy Kaplan > > -- > Un

Re: slink and potato

1999-11-11 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 11 Nov, Randy M.Kaplan wrote about "slink and potato" > Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato? > Slink is the current stable version of Debian 2.1r3. The code name "slink" comes from the Slinky character in the movie Toy Story. Potato is the current unstable version of De

Re: slink and potato

1999-11-11 Thread aphro
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Randy M.Kaplan wrote: rkapla >Can someone provide a definition of slink? of potato? slink = debian v2.1 potato = debian 2.2 is that what u wanted ?? nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http:/

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-19 Thread Todd Suess
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dave Baker wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > > > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > > with it. > > > > -Todd > > > > ps. for this to work, y

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Joe Block
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:00:51PM -0500, Ben Wong wrote: > Then how come at ftp.debian.org there's a directory named slink and also > a directory named stable, and a directory named potato and also a > directory > named unstable? They're aliases. stable always points to the current stable distri

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote: : > Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 : > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due : > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) : > : > Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unsta

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Baker
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > with it. > > -Todd > > ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and > a entry in sou

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:17:27PM +, RAVIKANT K RAO wrote: > what is better about potato? ( i'm still new to debian ; so just wondering > if i should go slink -> potato ) Potato is newer stuff. The trade-off is that it is less stable - hasn't been tested as thoroughly. Potato is almost read

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Ben Wong wrote: > > I have been using potato for a while now will little or no problems, > > and it works a lot better in many ways, at least for me. what is better about potato? ( i'm still new to debian ; so just wondering if i should go slink -> potato ) thanks you - r

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 10:00:51PM -0500, Ben Wong wrote: > Then how come at ftp.debian.org there's a directory named slink and also > a directory named stable, and a directory named potato and also a > directory > named unstable? Ever heard of a symlink? unstable -> potato stable -> slink I

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Todd Suess
Those are directory aliases, they go to the same place. If you cd to slink you will get to stable if you cd to potato you will get to unstable. regards, Todd Then how come at ftp.debian.org there's a directory named slink and also a directory named stable, and a directory named potato and al

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, It appears that the the other directories are just symbolic links. In other words, opening "stable" is the same as opening "slink". When I first installed linux, I had to figure out all of this stuff, as I copied the entire slink CD to my hard drive under win95, and had to fix up all of thes

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 > > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due > > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) > > > > Often you will see Slink = Stabl

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Ben Wong
> Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 > Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due > to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) > > Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but > I have been using potato for a while now w

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread Todd Suess
I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble with it. -Todd ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and a entry in sources.list pointing to an unstable archive. At 04:33

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
> Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but > I have been using potato for a while now will little or no problems, > and it works a lot better in many ways, at least for me. I am running slink but I want to upgrade to potato. How do I go about? What is the best way? -gnana

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread Todd Suess
Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but I have been using potato for a while now will little