Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 06 mai 14, 21:20:29, Brian wrote: > > The Debian Fairy has waved her magic wand: > >tasksel remove > > Followed by > >apt-get --purge autoremove This will most probably not restore your system to its previous state due to circular Depends/Recommends/Suggests, especially for th

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 06 mai 14, 17:33:56, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 07:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want a new "task-jwm-desktop" to be written. > > It might make sense to provide xfce4-terminal or roxterm for such a > JWM meta-package, but many people perhaps think tha

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 09:20:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 06 May 2014 at 07:54:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > This post is being composed well after a great tree of responses to OP > > have accumulated. In these, as well as in other posts about DE in > > Debian I have seen mentioned th

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 May 2014 at 07:54:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > This post is being composed well after a great tree of responses to OP > have accumulated. In these, as well as in other posts about DE in > Debian I have seen mentioned the JWM environment. It is interesting to > me, but I am aware that

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140506_1820+0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 17:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't want to decide what "sane" default software for JWM usage could > > be. Some people want to get something close to a bloated DE, other's > > want to be closer to a tiling window manager w

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 17:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't want to decide what "sane" default software for JWM usage could > be. Some people want to get something close to a bloated DE, other's > want to be closer to a tiling window manager when using JWM. PPS: I want to get something in the

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 17:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 07:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want a new "task-jwm-desktop" to be written. > > JWM isn't a desktop environment, it's a window manager only. To provide > such a meta package for JWM would be more

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Paul, On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 07:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want a new "task-jwm-desktop" to be written. JWM isn't a desktop environment, it's a window manager only. To provide such a meta package for JWM would be more controversy, than it already is for Xfce. For example, Xfce has got i

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments [somewhat off topic]

2014-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140502_1155+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 02 mai 14, 15:58:00, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > What I am wondering, is whether the Debian 7.5 installation disks, include > > the option during the installation process, for the user to select which > > desktop environment(s) the user wants to

somewhat off topic: ethernet card problem

2003-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I guessing my eth card is dead but hoping ;). Sony's support team are useless and incompetent so I don't bother (tried to contact them on other problems but they were never able to give anything else then the template answear). My eth card stop functioning. Its a realtech 8139 compatible onboard c

Somewhat off topic: XiG Xserver installation wrapper?

1999-11-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
Has anyone managed to make a deb package out of the Xi Graphics X server? We bought it cos it has multiheaded support, and before I beat my head against the wall for too long I thought perhaps someone else had luck with this software ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Jor-el
Hi, Actually, in the Open Source book by O' Reilly, Linus himself answers this question : all other variants of UNIX were actually derived from the AT&T and (eventually) BSD source code. Linux was written from scratch and is not based off of the AT&T or BSD sources. So Linux is really a UN

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > Mark Wright writes: > > > Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say > > > "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system". > > > > They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't > > selling it

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Mark Wright writes: > > > Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say > > > "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system". > > > > They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't > > selling it. > > I don't th

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
> Mark Wright writes: > > Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say > > "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system". > > They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't > selling it. I don't think that's anything to do with it. BSD UNIX *i

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-08 Thread John Hasler
Mark Wright writes: > Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say > "FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system". They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't selling it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-08 Thread Mark Wright
From: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |On 08-Jun-99 Mark Wright wrote: |> I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this: |> why is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's |> referred to as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal. |> Is th

RE: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-08 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Jun-99 Mark Wright wrote: > I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this: > why is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's > referred to as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal. > Is there some Unix standard that Linux does not

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-08 Thread shaleh
> > I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this: why > is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's referred to > as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal. Is there some > Unix standard that Linux does not adhere to. Is there some lic

A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-08 Thread Mark Wright
I've checked the FAQs, and I can't seem to find a good answer to this: why is Linux not refered to as a flavor of Unix? On Linux.Org, it's referred to as "Unix-like", and this hedging seems pretty universal. Is there some Unix standard that Linux does not adhere to. Is there some licensing orga

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-31 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > "DAVID B. TEAGUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ... Is there a way to program the ppp chat script or > > otherwise programm a dial loop that will allow me to repeatedly try to > > connect and start ppp? > My pppd tries repeatedly (at least

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread Britton
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: > Hi > > My ISP one of the *.campus.mci.net ISPs. They claim only to support > Windoze and refuse to help when I have problems, since I don't use the > M$ os. > > When things work they work very, very well. I have had about a year of > consecutive da

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"DAVID B. TEAGUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sometimes 20 - 30 attempts with pppd will get a connection. Using > kermit, I can program a loop to retry until it conects. I can't start > ppp that way. Is there a way to program the ppp chat script or > otherwise programm a dial loop that will al

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread Adam Shand
> Sometimes 20 - 30 attempts with pppd will get a connection. Using > kermit, I can program a loop to retry until it conects. I can't start > ppp that way. Is there a way to program the ppp chat script or > otherwise programm a dial loop that will allow me to repeatedly try to > connect and star

Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
Hi My ISP one of the *.campus.mci.net ISPs. They claim only to support Windoze and refuse to help when I have problems, since I don't use the M$ os. When things work they work very, very well. I have had about a year of consecutive days of connecting the first try any time I try, with only an oc

[somewhat off topic] Javascript bug

1997-07-10 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
I just found out about this javascript bug that affects both IE and NS. They say it works on all versions on NS (linux/unix/windows/mac) I have checked it on the mac.. and it does work there. Will check the linux version once I get home tonight. Unless someone beats me to it. This is more a sec