Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 11:00:34 (+0200), Jochen Spieker wrote: > Kenneth Parker: > > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > > systems, has been going for a while, > > It has been going

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Long Wind
Congratulation! such success story is hardly surprising to me debian has lots of such story if i meet problem, usually i can get help from this list sometimes i can't solve it even after seeking help but debian is still best in my experience On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 1:39:03 PM

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
Kenneth Parker: > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > systems, has been going for a while, It has been going on since at least 2008, so calling these changes "recent" uses a quite fl

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Kenneth Parker
One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running systems, has been going for a while, and also learning more about the systemd changes. I will also add the Bios to UEFI transition, which the last two

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Congratulations, Kenneth! I’m proud to have been of help! Rick On Apr 23, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have > trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent > Chicken and Eg

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 04:04:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Kenneth Parker writes: > > > Isn't this what this is all about? [...] > Excellent work, and a great result. Thanks for reporting it to us! Seconded. Thanks for the report. That's the spi

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Kenneth Parker writes: > Isn't this what this is all about? I now have a happy Debian user, who > was previously a marginalized Mac user, down on his luck, and unable > to afford the expensive new Macs! > > Now, he is up to date, and able to use Firefox, LibreOffice, and other > Debian Packages,

A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

2018-04-23 Thread Kenneth Parker
Hello, I'm sure you are, more used to getting bad news posts, when people have trouble. And my situation began that way. I'm the one with the recent Chicken and Egg Issue, helping a friend install Debian 9.4 on an expired MacBook, which Apple states can't run anything later than OSX Lion. The

Debian success story reports - is there an archive?

2007-03-09 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Is there a place where people have reported results/sagas/stories of bringing up debian (any version) on specific hardware? I usually find that I am doing most my searching for these types of reports before buying mother boards and associated hardware. Now that I have brought up debian an on 10

Re: any success story with binary nvidia drivers + software suspend + 2.6?

2004-04-22 Thread Hans Dembinski
Perhaps I should be more concrete: the newest nvidia driver has support for 2.6, but it's not working with software suspend. So you either have to use the nv drivers from X and software suspend (and no 3d acceleration), or the nvidia drivers with hardware acceleration but then you can't software

any success story with binary nvidia drivers + software suspend + 2.6?

2004-04-21 Thread Hans Dembinski
Hi there, there seems to be a way (there's a howto on the swsusp homepage) for 2.4 kernels to do this, but it doesn't work for 2.6 kernels. is there anyone who got these software pieces working together? greetz, HD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: success story: Freecom FHD-2 mobile hard drive (FIREWIRE)

2003-09-16 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:19, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone have any success (or unsuccess) story > with the Freecom FHD-2 mobile hard drives [USB-2 & FIREWIRE] > (distributed by www.freecom.com ) with Debian [testing] ? On firewire there actually only is the sbp2 module for storag

success story: Freecom FHD-2 mobile hard drive (FIREWIRE)

2003-09-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, does anyone have any success (or unsuccess) story with the Freecom FHD-2 mobile hard drives [USB-2 & FIREWIRE] (distributed by www.freecom.com ) with Debian [testing] ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: success story

2002-03-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Mar 30, 2002, faisal gillani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i am a windows network administrator & about a month ago on one of my > network i placed a debian linux server + apache webserver on the other > hand i had a windows 2000 server running Ms ISA server the place on > which these server

Re: success story

2002-03-30 Thread dave mallery
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > i am a windows network administrator & about a month > ago on one of my network i placed a debian linux > server + apache webserver on the other hand i had a > windows 2000 server running Ms ISA server > the place on which these servers are running hav

success story

2002-03-30 Thread faisal gillani
i am a windows network administrator & about a month ago on one of my network i placed a debian linux server + apache webserver on the other hand i had a windows 2000 server running Ms ISA server the place on which these servers are running have some power outage problems that are beyond my contro

Re: Debian + DSL...a success story...

2001-10-02 Thread P Kirk
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 03:50:07PM -0400, Jeffrey Michael Reed wrote: >typically all you find is PROBLEMS on the mail list... > >well, i would like to offer some words of encouragement for >a change...a success story. > >using Debian and a cheap Pentium machine (as my router)

Debian + DSL...a success story...

2001-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Michael Reed
typically all you find is PROBLEMS on the mail list... well, i would like to offer some words of encouragement for a change...a success story. using Debian and a cheap Pentium machine (as my router) and my Earthlink ADSL connection, i now have a fine home-based network that's easy to m

Re: Success story: potato on Sparc Classic

2000-04-13 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:00:40AM +0200, BAUDIN Maxime wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:08:24PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > > is that X doesn't work yet (I get a white screen, and the server says > > something about not being able to load PEX fonts), but I'll first check > > the mailing list arch

Re: kernel success story

2000-03-08 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:27:35PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > hello list: > > thankx for everyone's input > > a linuxnewbie, myself, was able to upgrade his linux kernel from 2.0.38 to > 2.2.14 (the latest and greatest slink!) > > so thank you for your support. > > machine used: > pentium 200 > 32

kernel success story

2000-03-08 Thread Beavis
hello list:   thankx for everyone's input   a linuxnewbie, myself, was able to upgrade his linux kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 (the latest and greatest slink!)   so thank you for your support.   machine used: pentium 200 32 mb 1.5 gig HD   do u suggest any logs to view, just to make sure everyt

success story

1998-01-04 Thread Gerhard Tonn
Hi Debian Friends, this is just to report a successful Debian installation on a low memory system. I am successfully running the Debian base package, PPP networking and X11 base packages downloaded from the latest distribution. The kernel have been compiled by myself configuring as many modules as